What Canadian Philosophers Won’t Do

The post below originally appeared on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY in April 2023 and is as pertinent now as it was back then. In this regard, consider its claims together with claims made in recent posts here and here. _________________________________________________________________________ Someone could easily come up with a host of things that Canadian feminist philosophers would, predictably, refuse […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hiring Practices and Dirty Laundry

This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) takes its inspiration from events that transpired on Daily Nous during the past week. For through a series of comments there, Paul Raymont, “Canadian Post-Doc,” and I made evident to the international readership of Daily Nous that Canadian philosophy departments give preference in hiring to American and […]

Spinoza and Feminism: Seminar with Hasana Sharp, Zoom, Jun. 14, 2025, at 17:00 BST/12:00pm EST

Saturday June 14th, 17:00 BST/12:00pm ESTSee this page for details: https://culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to-spinoza-affect-ideology-materiality/ This seminar is part of the series From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality, convened by Andrew Goffey, Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert, hosted by Culture, Power, Politics. The seminar will be held on Zoom, is free, and open to all. The link will be sent out […]

Ableist Language and Other Everyday Assaults on Disabled People

This return to a post of January 2019 is a reminder that the use of ableist language is not merely about a certain choice of words but rather produces (and reproduces) certain ableist ontologies and epistemologies. Some philosophers and theorists of disability continue to employ the ableist term people with disabilities which has been dubbed […]

What Canadian Philosophers Won’t Do

Someone could easily come up with a host of things that Canadian feminist philosophers would, predictably, refuse to do, including invite a “gender-critical” feminist philosopher to keynote at an annual CSWIP conference and promote (on social media and elsewhere) a philosopher who is a notorious sexual harasser of his philosophy graduate students. No group of […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Kelly Oliver

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

Are Some Trans People Disabled? Are Some Disabled People Trans?

Yes and yes, and these are two (but only two) of the reasons why feminist philosophers need to do a much better job than they have thus far done to integrate analyses of ableism into their interventions in the ongoing debates in philosophy about gender and transgender and their work more generally. The interventions into […]

When I Was De-Platformed

For as long as I can remember, nondisabled philosophers (and disabled philosophers who seem to be grappling with the unfortunate effects of internalized ableism) have expressed some kind of hostility when I pointed out that their utterances use terms that have ableist connotations or are ableist in some other way. So, I wasn’t the least […]

Beyond Inclusive Syllabi

[Occasionally, I will (re)post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY essays, data, or other information that I previously posted on the Discrimination and Disadvantage blog. The following post appeared on Discrimination and Disadvantage  in October of last year.] Nondisabled white women are generally included whenever philosophers wish to identify various underrepresented groups in the profession. Indeed, these women are generally given priority […]