Here is the draft program of the upcoming edition of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change: Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6). Registration for the conference will open soon. Check back frequently! Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6) January 28-30, 2026 (All times are EST = GMT – 5hr; CET – 6hr; CST + […]
More News About Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6)
Conference organization and planning continues! Yesterday, I met with Melinda Hall (School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Central Florida-UCF) and Jonathan Beever (Center for Ethics, University of Central Florida-UCF), as well as Jamie Morris, our illustrious tech expert who resolved some outstanding questions with respect to the platform and logistics of the conference. We are […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Will Conway
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-eighth 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 […]
News about Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6
As December approaches, readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may be wondering why they have been given so little information about the upcoming sixth edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change online conference series. I want to remind you, therefore, that Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 will unapologetically take place online from January 28 to […]
A Feminist Re-Reading of Foucault Through the Apparatus of Disability/A Feminist Re-Reading of the Apparatus of Disability Through Foucault, Sciences Po/Paris, Nov. 7, 2025
The writing below is the text of my (online) keynote presentation to FEMINIST RE-READINGS OF FOUCAULT, Sciences Po, Paris, November 7, 2025. _____________________________________________________________________________________ A Feminist Re-Reading of Foucault Through the Apparatus of Disability/A Feminist Re-Reading of the Apparatus of Disability Through Foucault SECTION I: Why Foucault? My philosophical work is centrally concentrated in philosophy of […]
Feminist Exclusions and Why You Need This Encyclopedia
My work as editor of the Philosophy and Theory of Disability area of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Disability Studies is winding down. Overall, the experience of putting together this collection of articles has been remarkably valuable. The authors whom I selected and recommended to write for the encyclopedia have produced outstanding pieces on their respective […]
Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6)!
As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I organized the first five editions of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conferences (links to the videos of which are available here) with the support of Jonathan Wolff under the auspices of the Alfred Landecker Chair in the School of Government at the University of Oxford. […]
Philosophy and Disability, Special Issue of Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies
1. A Cartography of Philosophy on/of Disability – Introduction by Chiara Montalti & Brunella Casalini (https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/558) 2. The Epistemological Significance of Blindness in Plato’s Republic. Bridging Ancient Philosophy and Disability Studies – by Lorenzo Giovannetti (https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/522) 3. Amending Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology Based on Disabled People’s Lived Experiences – by James B Wise (https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/486) 4. Understanding Models and Theories of Disability: A Historical Approach […]
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 […]
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