Solnit and How Oppositional Ableism is Nevertheless Ableism

If you are a new reader/listener of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY or unfamiliar with work that I have published in other contexts, you likely do not know that, over a number of years, I have devoted a great deal of critical attention to the matter of ableist language. These critiques of ableist language have been advanced in […]

On Lakatosian philosophy of science, based on a recent talk by Atocha Aliseda

Science is such a problematic philosophical phenomenon because of its double nature: on the one hand, it has had some astonishing epistemological successes, i.e., it has given us some wonderful objective knowledge about the world, both natural and non-natural; but on the other, it is a heterogeneous social practice and as such it reflects the […]

Is Canada a Safe Haven if You are Disabled and LGBTQ+?

Some Canadian and other LGBTQ+ philosophers have circulated posts on various platforms about a document issued by Haven, a group at University of Toronto-Scarborough that works on immigration policy and border issues. The document, entitled “A Guide for LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers Crossing the Canada-U.S. Border,” is intended to provide guidance to American “LGBTQI+ individuals who are exploring […]

In-Person Philosophy Conferences as a Mask for Academic Imperialism

In an article published at CBC News on Friday, Natalie Stechyson writes the following: some employers in both the private and public sector are mandating that many workers have to come back full time.  As a growing number of Canadians once again find themselves cramming public transit and clogging highways to get to their workplaces, you might be wondering: […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at 8am ET

“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 […]

CFP: THEORISING DISABILITY AND NEURODIVERGENCE. PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS AND CHALLENGES, Special issue of Azimuth: Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age (deadline: Jan. 15, 2026)

“THEORISING DISABILITY AND NEURODIVERGENCE. PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS AND CHALLENGES” (ed. by Chiara Montalti and Matteo Santarelli) Disability and neurodivergence have garnered growing interest in philosophy, as evidenced by several essays and collected volumes recently published, not so rarely by disabled and/or neurodivergent scholars (among others, see the work by Robert Chapman, Adam Cureton, Alan Jurgens, Shelley […]

This Labour Day…

Spend some time thinking about the disabled philosopher that you didn’t hire/didn’t retain/didn’t tenure/didn’t promote/didn’t give a living wage/didn’t enable to flourish in their vocation.

Reviewers for “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly

As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I am guest editing a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches,” which will commemorate the one hundred-year anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Late in September, I will begin to receive the […]

Hurricane Katrina, Twenty Years Later

Friday, August 29, 2025, marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, a weather event that rapidly became a significant social and political catastrophe killing close to two thousand people, most of whom were poor and Black, and displacing and rendering homeless thousands more, forecasting the spectre of human-made disaster precipitated […]