This series is intended to flesh out some of the remarks that I made in a pivotal paragraph of my reply to commentators in the Pacific APA symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability. In the previous post in this series, I returned to the paragraph in order to consider the remark according to […]
New Books Network Interview about Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Because it is a hot and hazy summer day and we don’t have much initiative to work, I decided to post the interview about Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability that I did last August (it was posted last September) with Dave O’Brien of the New Books Network. As the accompanying blurb for the interview […]
Commemorating Foucault II: Symposium on Tremain’s Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Michel Foucault died unexpectedly 35 years ago today. To honour Foucault’s memory and the rich body of work that he bequeathed to us, I am reposting two symposiums that were previously posted at Discrimination and Disadvantage: a symposium on my Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability that took place at the annual meeting of CSWIP […]
Commemorating Foucault I: Symposium on Hall’s The Bioethics of Enhancement
Michel Foucault died unexpectedly 35 years ago today. To honour Foucault’s memory and the rich body of work that he bequeathed to us, I am reposting two symposiums that were previously posted at Discrimination and Disadvantage: a symposium on my Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability that took place at the annual meeting of CSWIP […]
More On How Bioethics Fosters Homogeneity in Philosophy and Society in General
It would be difficult to overestimate the constraining effects that the PhilPapers database generates for the development of critical philosophical work on disability. Nor could one overstate the deleterious consequences that accrue to disabled philosophers due to the structure of a spinoff of PhilPapers, namely, PhilJobs, the leading job board in philosophy whose architecture mirrors […]
Neoliberalism, Bioethics, and the Apparatus of Disability in a German Context
In the fifth chapter of Foucault and the Government of Disability, I assert that philosophers and theorists of disability should recognize that the subfield of bioethics is a neoliberal technology of government, that is, a concerted biopolitical enterprise whose aim is normalization (and hence control) of populations. Given the scope of my critique of bioethics […]
Another Reason To Get Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability – 30% Off!
Some readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall that one of our first posts was an announcement about the book symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability that will take place at the upcoming Pacific APA in Vancouver. In recognition of this event, the University of Michigan Press will take 30% off the […]
APA Symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
The draft program for the upcoming Pacific APA meeting in Vancouver (April 17th-20th, 2019) went online in late November. The symposium on my book, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, is scheduled for Thursday, April 18th, 1-4 p.m. My co-blogger, Melinda Hall, will chair the session. The other participants in the session are: Devonya Havis, […]
Draft Introduction to “Denaturalizing Impairment and Disability in Feminist Philosophy of Science”
Below I have copied the draft introduction of my contribution to the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science, edited by Sharon Crasnow and Kristen Intemann. Feminist philosophy of science emerged in large part as a critical response to the essentialist assumptions about sex and gender that have conditioned Euro-American thinking in general and […]
CFP: (Post)colonial Health: Global Perspectives on the Medical Humanities, University of Leeds, June 20-21, 2019 (deadline: Feb. 15, 2019)
(Post)colonial Health: Global Perspectives on the Medical Humanities Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds, 20-21 June 2019 Keynote speakers:Professor Deepika Bahri, Professor of English, Emory University, author of Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh After Empire (2017) Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Professor in the History of Medicine, Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories, and Director of the […]
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