How Canadian Philosophy Plays a Vital Role in the Project of Eugenics: Or, Gender, Schafer, and Other Nondisabled White Male Bioethicists

I’m always disappointed when I see Canadian feminist philosophers contribute to and reproduce the significant role that philosophy in Canada and Canadian bioethicists in particular play in the legacy of eugenics in Canada and the exclusion of disabled philosophers and philosophy of disability that this legacy requires and sustains. Given the systemic and structural character […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain

This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Shay Welch

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and tenth 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 […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain

This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, May 15, at 8 a.m. 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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): On Agency, Autonomy, and MAiD

This week’s quote of the week (though it’s only Thursday) returns us to earlier discussions of MAiD (on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and here) in which I point out that proponents of this mechanism of eugenics generally hold dated understandings about contemporary forms of power (its character, how it coalesces, how it operates, etc.), assuming facile liberal […]

Dialogues on Disability with T Virgil Murthy and John Henry Reilly

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the ninth-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m 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 about a range […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Alex Byrne on Gender and Disability

The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) extends my examination, in previous “quote of the week” posts, of the distinctly tendentious ways in which philosophers deploy ableist language to signify allegedly natural defect with respect to a purportedly universal intelligence and the material and institutional effects of these discursive practices. […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Joe Stramondo on Trans Athletes and Id*ots

The quote of the week for this week (though it’s only Thursday) aims to further expose ableist language and its political histories, as well as underscore the contested status that the notion of intelligence should hold for philosophers. Indeed, an anti-ableist conceptualization of disability—viz. philosophy of disability—should assume that neither the notion of intelligence nor […]