Here is some additional summer reading/listening for avid fans of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. The essay that appears below is forthcoming as a chapter in Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and Daniele Lorenzini. Since my writing on disability is often appropriated without attribution or proper citation to me (not by you, dear fan/reader/listener!), I am […]
What Canadian Philosophers Won’t Do
The post below originally appeared on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY in April 2023 and is as pertinent now as it was back then. In this regard, consider its claims together with claims made in recent posts here and here. _________________________________________________________________________ Someone could easily come up with a host of things that Canadian feminist philosophers would, predictably, refuse […]
Everything American Is More; Even Gender
Everything American is more: more interesting, more special, more problematic, more controversial, more important, more urgent, more radical, more insightful, more progressive, more invested, more pertinent, more attention-grabbing, more useful, more instructive, more informed. So it should surprise no one that the participation of American philosopher Alex Byrne in the production of “Treatment of Pediatric […]
Originally Posted March 3, 2019: Helen De Cruz and Prestige Bias (in Canadian Philosophy Departments)
I greatly admire Helen De Cruz who, in my view, exhibits a genuine commitment to diversity and inclusivity in philosophy, something that is rarer than most philosophers want to acknowledge. I especially appreciate the empirical and analytical work on prestige bias in philosophy that Helen has initiated and developed. In particular, I want to commend […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Nic Cottone
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-third 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 […]
CFP: THEORISING DISABILITY AND NEURODIVERGENCE. PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS AND CHALLENGES, Special issue of Azimuth: Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age
“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 […]
More on Snyder, Shore, and Stanley Go to Toronto
I encourage readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY who have followed discussions around these events to watch/listen to the captioned video (linked below) that Timothy Snyder made and posted to his Substack today. In the video, Snyder identifies and responds to several criticisms that many commentators have made about him and Marci Shore since the public announcement […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hiring Practices and Dirty Laundry
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) takes its inspiration from events that transpired on Daily Nous during the past week. For through a series of comments there, Paul Raymont, “Canadian Post-Doc,” and I made evident to the international readership of Daily Nous that Canadian philosophy departments give preference in hiring to American and […]
What Feminism is This?
In various posts here at BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and in various publications, including “Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics” (my chapter in The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy), I have identified and elaborated the ways in which a culture of eugenics circulates within and animates Canadian philosophy departments. Hiring and promotion practices, course […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Vanessa Wills
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-second instalment 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 […]
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