This week’s contribution to the quote-of-the-week thread (though it’s only Wednesday) considers the extent to which nondisabled philosophers and nondisabled feminist philosophers in particular will give up their position of dominance with respect to what gets said about disability in philosophy, who gets to say it, and how it gets said. It has been almost […]
Disability and Technology?
Some readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY might be interested to read/listen to the pre-publication version of my chapter “Disability and Technology? No, Disability as Technology,” which is forthcoming in Technology and Equality, edited by Sven-Ove Hansson and Colleen Murphy, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2025, pp. 77-90. You will find the pre-publication version of my chapter […]
CFP: The Palgrave Handbook on Frantz Fanon (deadline: Feb. 1, 2025)
Call For Proposals The Palgrave Handbook on Frantz Fanon will include essays from 30-40 scholars on a variety of topics related to the Afro-Martinican psychiatrist, intellectual, and revolutionary Frantz Omar Fanon. The handbook will provide students and scholars across many fields with a compendium of excellent scholarship that will enrich their engagements with Fanon’s life, […]
Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5), Unapologetically Online, December 11-13, 2024: Final Program and Registration Information
Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 is free, will unapologetically take place online, and is open to everyone! This conference is co-organized by Shelley Tremain and Jonathan Wolff, with the support of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5) comprises presentations by disabled philosophers whose cutting-edge research challenges […]
(Updated) CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)
This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]
Letter to Boycott Israeli Literary Institutions with Link to Add Your Name
From the Palestinian Festival of Literature: October 28, 2024 | More than 1,000 authors, including winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award have launched a mass boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the dispossession of the Palestinian people. This is the largest cultural boycott against Israeli institutions in history. […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]
CFA: Neurodiversity, Autism, ASD, and Other Categories in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Tilburg/Online, Dec. 16, 2024 (deadline: Oct. 23, 2024)
We invite submissions of abstracts (~250-500 words) on any of the following or broadly related topics: What should we mean by “neurodiversity”? What is the relationship between the categories “neurodiversity,” “autism” and “ASD”? Why are these categories useful? What are their limitations? What do we know about the mechanisms, developmental trajectory, phenomenology, and social attitudes […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Megan Dean
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and fifteenth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for […]
Boycott Philosophy & Public Affairs, edited by Anti-Democratic Neoliberal Jason Brennan
Daily Nous has reported that a new editorial team has resurrected the journal Philosophy & Public Affairs (PPA), owned by Wiley. This news comes barely a month after I published a call to action on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY urging philosophers to boycott Wiley and other predatory publishers. Here, I will review some of Wiley’s offenses against PPA’s former editorial board, and […]
