Fatness and the Abnormal Kristin Rodier Presentation to Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, December 13, 2024 I want to thank Shelley Tremain and the conference organizers for inviting me to share my work. Learning about what everyone has been working on has become a highlight of my year. In keeping with Shelley’s advocacy within […]
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 […]
Prefiguration and the Abolition of Bioethics
Foucault’s genealogical method is the best approach with which to examine how the subfield of bioethics (1) contributes to the production of the problem of disability (and its naturalized foundation)–that is, contributes to the production of disability as a problem; and (2) is designed to hasten its elimination, that is, to resolve the problem that […]
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 […]
CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)
This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]
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 […]
The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability at a 30% Discount Until December 8
If you do not have a copy of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability and would like to get one, you can do so now at a discount. Until 11:59pm ET December 8, Bloomsbury Publishers is offering a 30% discount on its books–including The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability–in its holiday sale. To order The Bloomsbury […]
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 […]
Meet the New Boss–Same as the Old Boss: Jenkins and Cull on Feminist Metaphysics
Frieder Vogelmann’s recent article** “Political Epistemology without Apologies” begins in this way: The recent interest in political epistemology seems easy to explain. Its rise to prominence is routinely traced to two events in 2016: the Brexit referendum in the UK and the election of Donald J. Trump as 45th president of the USA (e.g. Hannon & […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Wednesday): Cressida Heyes on Identity Politics and Disability
This week’s contribution to the quote-of-the-week thread (though it’s only Wednesday) considers the extent to which nondisabled philosophers and nondisabled feminist philosophers in particular will give up their position of dominance with respect to what gets said about disability in philosophy, who gets to say it, and how it gets said. It has been almost […]
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