As I indicated in Part 1, many of the heated discussions in philosophy about academic freedom have revolved around the question of whether universities should extend invitations for speaking engagements to Peter Singer whose claims about infanticide and disabled infants most philosophers find reprehensible. In contrast to the reception of Singer’s work, feminist bioethics and […]
Why Have (Feminist) Philosophers Ignored Nursing Home Incarceration?
My article “Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex” appears in the recently published special issue of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies that I guest edited. The article is in partictular the culmination of research that I conducted on nursing homes and other so-called long-term care institutions from early 2000 to mid […]
On Moderation
Something my late friend, the philosopher Maite Ezcurdia used to always stress was that extreme positions are always the most stable, while moderate positions are always more attractive, but unstable. What I take this to mean is that extreme positions are more internally coherent, but have contra-intuitive consequences. This means that they show more abstract […]
Videos of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 2 (#PhiDisSocCh2) Now Available Online!
The much-awaited videos of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 2 (#PhiDisSocCh2) conference that took place December 7-10, 2021 are now available online! If you were unable to attend the conference, missed some of the sessions, or simply want to experience again the amazing presentations that were given over the four days of the conference, […]
Philosophy of Disability at the Canadian Philosophical Association, May 17-20, 2022, Online
It is with great pleasure that I can now report that the proposal which Alex Bryant, Amandine Catala, Emily R. Douglas, Isaac Jiang, Audrey Yap, and I submitted to the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) for a 3-hour symposium entitled “Disabling Philosophy in the Canadian Context” has been accepted for inclusion on the programme of the […]
New Publication: Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic, Special Issue of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies – Open Access!
I am delighted that Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic, the special issue of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies that I guest edited, has (finally) been published! The issue (and journal) is open access. In addition to my introduction to the issue and my article on philosophy of disability; conceptual engineering; and the […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, January 19th, at 8 a.m. EST
“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 […]
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 […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Amandine Catala
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the eightieth 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 […]
Dea, Data, and the Disabling Canadian University
This post extends a thread about disability and data collection that I began in an earlier post (go here). I had intended to continue my consideration of APDA/Eric Schwitzgebel’s discussion about disability and the demographics of philosophy and of Shannon Dea’s discussion about disability and the post-pandemic university in Canada after I examined the fuller […]
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 