I was the first guest on the new Philosophy Casting Call podcast series hosted by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, a new contributor to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. You can listen to my interview with Élaina, which is entitled, “The State of Philosophy of Disabillity,” here or wherever you get your podcasts. Over the course of the interview, I talk […]
Billionaire Philanthropy: Immoral, Epistemically Corrupt, and Undemocratic (Guest post)
By Mich Ciurria Recently, news broke that the philosophy department at Bowling Green University has become a toxic environment due to infighting amongst faculty, following the controversial hiring of a new professor and the receipt of a $1.6 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. This infusion, notes the Chronicle of Higher Education, “could have […]
CFP: Feminist Perspectives on Moral Responsibility (deadline: Apr. 30, 2022)
This is a call for papers for a special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on feminist approaches to moral responsibility guest edited by Michelle Ciurria. Feminist philosophy provides unique insight into the ontology, epistemology, psychology, pragmatics, and politics of responsibility. Unlike mainstream philosophy, feminist philosophy “originated in feminist politics and… included from the start discussion of feminist political […]
Philosophy Casting Call Podcast Teaser
Hello, all you lovely BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY readers! My name is Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril and I am the host of a new philosophy podcast that is dropping on 31 May 2021. As a disabled hapa woman philosopher, I wanted to use my love of the audio medium of podcasting to spotlight and amplify underrepresented philosophers. I am […]
A Patreon Account for Dialogues on Disability
With the vital encouragement of my friends, collleagues, and other supporters, and the crucial assistance of Alex Bryant, I am very pleased to announce the launch of a new Patreon account for the Dialogues on Disability interview series. The Dialogues on Disability Patreon page “welcome” below captures the motivation and rationale for the new Dialogues […]
Patreon and Dialogues on Disability (Updated)
UPDATE: The Dialogues on Disability Patreon page has now launched! You will find it here. In November, I told you that I was evicted. Many of you so very generously provided me with some financial assistance, with the guidance of my dear friend Susan Schweik who accepted aid for me through her Paypal account. Others […]
Reading Group on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (late May-early Aug.)
It is my pleasure to let you know that Alex Bryant (McMaster/UBC) is coordinating a reading group on my book, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, that will run from next week to early August. Alex has indicated on Twitter that anyone interested can still join the group by sending him a DM on Twitter […]
Five Books of Contemporary Philosophy made in Mexico you ought to read right now!
Part I: Those already available in English Poverty: A Philosophical Approach by Paulette DieterlenA philosophical evaluation, based both on concrete observations and theoretical arguments, of the difficult interactions between poverty and public policy. In Dieterlen’s approach, poverty is both a political problem, for it involves exclusion and disenfranchisement, and an ethical problem in so far […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the seventy-fourth 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 discussion with disabled philosophers […]
Reminder: Videos of the Philosophy, Disability and Social Change Conference (Dec. 9-11, 2020)
This post is a reminder that you can enjoy the exciting presentations made at the Philosophy, Disability and Social Change conference (Dec. 9-11, 2020) that Jonathan Wolff and I co-organized (with funding and technical and other support from the Blavatnik School of Government at University of Oxford) on YouTube! All of the presentations constitute groundbreaking, […]
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