In an article published at CBC News on Friday, Natalie Stechyson writes the following: some employers in both the private and public sector are mandating that many workers have to come back full time. As a growing number of Canadians once again find themselves cramming public transit and clogging highways to get to their workplaces, you might be wondering: […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at 8am 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 “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
Vital Links to Captioned Videos of Five Editions of the Philosophy, Disability and Social Change (#PhiDisSocCh) Conference
If you are searching for new material in philosophy of disability to add to your course syllabus or need some inspiration, motivation, and profoundly fresh ideas and arguments for your own research, ponder no more. Below, I have copied the links to all the captioned videos of five years of the Philosophy, Disability and Social […]
CFP: THEORISING DISABILITY AND NEURODIVERGENCE. PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS AND CHALLENGES, Special issue of Azimuth: Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age (deadline: Jan. 15, 2026)
“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 […]
This Labour Day…
Spend some time thinking about the disabled philosopher that you didn’t hire/didn’t retain/didn’t tenure/didn’t promote/didn’t give a living wage/didn’t enable to flourish in their vocation.
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Mich Ciurria
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-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 […]
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, August 20, 2025
“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 “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-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 […]
How Do the PPN and DERPs Define Public Philosophy?
I felt both compelled and reluctant to email my friend Tracy Isaacs to express my dismay that she is on the program for the upcoming October conference of the Public Philosophy Network (PPN). The conference will take place in the epicenter of downtown Hamilton at a satellite campus of McMaster University that is located in […]
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