Pre-ordering The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability

Yesterday, we ran a wonderful two-part pre-publication launch of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability (which I have edited) at the truly incredible hybrid philoSOPHIA conference that Andrea Pitts and Elisabeth Paquette organized. The entire conference was a testament to how a well-planned hybrid conference can be engaging and inclusive, as well as build […]

philoSOPHIA 2023 Conference Schedule, Hybrid, Jun. 1-3, 2023

Thursday, June 1st 4PM – 5PM Registration 5PM – 6:30PM In-person Keynote #1: Stephanie Rivera Berruz, “Morir-Vivir Beyond the Human: Partial Ecological Connections and the Reconceptualization of Life” Moderator: Martin Shuster 6:30PM – 8PM Refreshments 6:30-7:30PM Projective Eye Gallery Tour with Adam Justice “Awaiting the Vertical, featuring work by Halide Salam” Friday, June 2nd 8AM […]

Why You Shouldn’t Take Too Seriously This Entry on Disability in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Within both the discipline and profession of philosophy, the exact nature of the differences between two methodological approaches—namely, (so-called) analytic philosophy and (so-called) continental philosophy—has been a contested matter and source of controversy for quite some time, in part because these approaches embody disparate institutional positions with respect to status and prestige. Although analytic philosophy […]

Polishing the Silver(s)

I recently had the distinct pleasure of attending an online presentation that Sara Ahmed gave at UC Berkeley. The presentation was motivated by a discussion of the terms polite and polish and their connotations and derivatives. Anyone who has read Ahmed’s work will know that their analyses often revolve around careful dissection of terms and […]

Dialogues on Disability With Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Johnathan Flowers

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

Philosophy of Disability at philoSOPHIA, Hybrid, Jun. 3

The annual philoSOPHIA conference takes place the first weekend of June, that is, June 1-4. On Saturday June 3, a two-part pre-publication book launch of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability will take place at the conference. 9:00am-10:20am: I, Kristin Rodier, Johnathan Flowers, and Amandine Catala will present. 1:30pm-2:50pm: Mich Ciurria, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, Melinda […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Kristin Rodier

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

A Brief Review of Hay’s Think Like a Feminist (Repost)

[This review appeared on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY last year on March 9th, the day following International Women’s Day. The original post of it is here.] Yesterday marked International Women’s Day and thus my Twitter feed was replete with neoliberal corporate and other ableist governmental discourses about women’s achievements and goals to commemorate the occasion. Several tweets […]

Registration for Troubling Access: Ableism and New Movements in Philosophy of Disability, Athabasca University/University of Alberta/Online, Mar. 30, 2023

The Athabasca University J-Series and the Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies at the University of Alberta are co-organizing “Troubling Access: Ableism & New Movements in Philosophy of Disability,” an interactive online event that will take place on March 30, 2023, 2:00pm-4:00pm MT (4:00pm-6:00 ET). The speakers in the event are me, Johnathan Flowers, […]