One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the profession is largely animated by the spirit of “neoliberal eugenics,” such that “few philosophy departments (in the Global North at least) remain untouched by the eugenic vision […]
From Bioethics to AI Ethics: A Genealogy of Philosophical Sell-Outs
The history of professional philosophy is largely a history of, to use a technical term, sell-outs, people who use their mastery of argumentation and rarefied jargon to defend the rich and powerful: colonizers, fascists, and capitalists, amongst other “moral parasites” (as some non-Western philosophers put it). Just as the victors write history, the victors write philosophy […]
Strategic Lawsuits as Epistemic Tyranny
Readers of this blog are no doubt aware of Donald Trump’s penchant for suing his critics and political enemies to silence them. Trump has filed billions of dollars’ worth of frivolous or retaliatory defamation lawsuits against major news outlets, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, CNN, the BBC, and others. Many of […]
Another Screed against the “Woke Mob” in Academia
Recently, Paul Boghossian and some of his friends at New York University, Princeton, Harvard, and other elite institutions, published a screed against the hostile takeover of academia by the woke mob. The term they used, however, was not the woke mob – Elon Musk’s favourite scapegoat – but rather the “progressive left,” a term they chose because they are […]
Disability Justice Is Animal Liberation: Cripping the Ridglan Farms Open Rescue
On April 18th, hundreds of activists attempted to rescue beagles from Ridglan Farms, an animal research and breeding facility in Wisconsin. David Killoren wrote about his experience as one of those activists, and defended the use of open rescue to liberate animals[i] from carceral settings. This includes Ridglan Farms, where beagles are confined in 2×4 cages for their […]
Proposal for Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Disability
As I noted in last week’s anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, Katie Staal, Senior Acquisitions Editor at Oxford University Press, recently encouraged me to submit a proposal for a handbook on feminist philosophy of disability. I submitted the proposal, about which Katie was very enthusiastic and has sent out for review, earlier today. It […]
Philosophical Eugenics: Grievance Philosopher Gets Job at UGhent Despite Shoddy Work, Still Sees Himself as Victim
In this extremely competitive job market, Nathan Cofnas was recently hired to a postdoctoral position at Ghent University (UGhent) in Belgium. Confas is best known for his research on “race realism” – specifically, the claim that Black people are less intelligent than White people due to genetic inferiority, or, as he euphemistically puts it, there are “group differences […]
Langton on Silencing
Some truisms regarding linguistic communication: 1: The content of an assertion is a function of both the sentence actually uttered and its context. 2: The context is not under the speaker’s direct and total control. 3: The content of an utterance is attributed to its speaker in a way that makes them responsible of their […]
Aristotelian Proto-racism and the Western Invention of the Zoological Other: Lessons from Maxi Glamour’s Genealogy
When I worked at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, I had the privileged of meeting Maxi Glamour, a philosopher, digital creator, activist, and mythical genderless fairy creature of many talents. I encourage readers to follow their blog and social media accounts if you don’t already. Recently, Glamour published a brief and illuminating genealogy of racism in philosophy, which […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at 8 a.m.
“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
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