Youth Suffrage is Disability Justice! A Coalitional Proposal. 

Introduction A youth rights coalition in which I am involved, called the Children’s Voting Colloquium, recently published a petition urging adults to transfer their votes to children in support of youth suffrage. (The reasons behind the pledge are explained in this article in the Guardian). The petition argues that there should be no minimum voting age because ‘political competency,’ which youths […]

A Philosophical Defense of Youth Suffrage

The following is an edited translation of an interview that I gave to Die Tageszeitung, a cooperative-owned German daily newspaper. The interviewer was Valérie Catil.  A philosopher on children’s right to vote For the philosopher Mich Ciurria, not letting children vote is a form of discrimination. She demands voting rights from birth. Wochentaz: Dr. Ciurria, the governing parties […]

Nursing Home Incarceration and the Fate of One Canadian Philosopher

Throughout the pandemic, I have written a number of posts on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (e.g. here, here here, here, here) and more formal publications about the horrors of nursing homes in Canada and abroad and the ageism and ableism that the institutionalization of elders and disabled people reinforces. In “Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the […]

Some of Our Favourite Posts of 2021

This post provides a retrospective of some of the most popular BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY posts from 2021. The Dialogues on Disability interviews for the year were also crowd favourites. You can find the archive of the Dialogues on Disability series interviews here. Each of the series interviews from the past year will be featured in the […]

CFP: Special Issue of Res Cogitans: The Philosophy of Aging (deadline: Sept. 15, 2021)

This special issue of Res Cogitans will present philosophical perspectives on aging and the life course. One central focus is vulnerability and imperfection. Elderly people are standardly categorized as vulnerable, but vulnerability tends to be understood in a narrowly biomedical way, rather than being seen as a part of life, conceived biographically and existentially and […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Christine Overall

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the seventy-fifth 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 […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Jennifer Scuro

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the seventy-second 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 […]