Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and seventh 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 […]
The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is Selling Out Around the World
Paperback copies of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability are sold out again on amazon.ca (Canada) and both paperback and hardcover copies of the book are sold out on amazon.au (Australia), although shipment of it finally arrived there only on Friday. Although this news makes me very happy in some respects, I encourage you […]
CEASEFIRE NOW!
Image: 4 squares of lines, one inside the other, at the centre of the squares are the words “Cease” and “Fire,” the former above the latter
Picard, Propaganda, and How the Mainstream Media Helps Bioethicists Help Shape the Eugenic Agenda in Canada
In the week following the publication of his book (his only book), Neglected No More, journalist André Picard was interviewed by co-host Adrienne Arsenault on a segment of The National, a nightly news program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). During the course of the interview, Arsenault asked Picard why he wrote a book about […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
Canadian Faculties Call for the Resignation of NDP MP Selina Robinson, BC Minister of Post-Secondary Education
February 4, 2024 We write as concerned Canadian faculty organizations whose combined membership spans universities and colleges across the country. Among us are faculty with expertise in Palestine Studies, Middle East Studies, Israel Studies, Jewish Studies, Education, History, Geography, Settler Colonial and Islamic Studies. We stand together to call unequivocally for the removal of B.C. […]
Philosophy, Bioethics, and Dirty Hands
In my previous post, I noted that one philosopher in attendance at my Syracuse presentation claimed that I had confused the causal relation between bioethics (and bioethicists) and the popularity and normalization of prenatal testing and screening. As I noted, furthermore, my interlocutor pointed out to me (in a somewhat patronizing fashion) that prospective parents […]
Bioethics and the Reproduction of Power
During the question period following my presentation at Syracuse University, one interlocutor asserted that I had confused the direction of causation between prenatal testing and bioethics. Prospective parents, he said, do not, as he understood me to suggest, avail themselves of prenatal testing because bioethicists tell them to do so. Rather, the technology has developed, […]
CFP: Absurdities of Academia: Liminal Realities of Vulnerable Academics (deadline: Feb. 15, 2024)
This is an invitation for full submissions for an edited volume, Absurdities of Academia Edited by Saba Fatima, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Contact for inquiries (not for submissions): sfatima@siue.edu. For submissions, please follow the submission guidelines below. Contributors: This is a solicitation for contributions from women of color in academia and/or other […]
(Why) You Should Stop Elevating Disabled Men in Philosophy
I was relieved that Mich Ciurria controlled the peer-review process for the forthcoming special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly that they guest edited. The reviewer reports that I received, although I did not agree with all the remarks made therein, were instructive and convinced me to expand upon and rearrange claims in the submission in […]
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