CFP: Feminist Re-readings of Foucault, Hybrid, Nov. 7, 2025 (deadline: Jun. 18, 2025)

Since the 1980s, Michel Foucault’s legacy in feminist theory and practice has been the subject of sustained and critical debate. His analyses of power, subjectivation, biopolitics, and governmentality have opened up fertile conceptual avenues for thinking about gender, sex, and sexuality. Yet they have also prompted significant critique: the absence of a theory of patriarchy, […]

Virtual Summer School: Feminist Critiques of Kant’s Views on Women & Human Progress, Zoom, Jun. 13, 16, 18, 2025 

Virtual Summer School: Feminist Critiques of Kant’s Views on Women & Human Progress  Organized by Olga Lenczewska, co-taught by Helga Varden and Holly Wilson Session 1: June 13th (Friday), 10-12 EST (4-6pm CET) Topic: Women in Kant’s Writings – prof. Olga Lenczewska Session 2: June 16th (Monday), 10-12 EST (4-6pm CET) Topic: Kant on Women’s Moral & Political Nature – guest speaker prof. Helga Varden […]

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 […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Lori Gruen

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and nineteenth 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 […]

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 […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, January 15, at 8 am ET

“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 […]

The Call is Coming from Inside the House; Or How Bioethics Has Compromised Philosophy and Philosophers

Bioethics and the neoliberal eugenics that motivates it have thoroughly compromised philosophy and philosophers–politically, institutionally, ethically, and economically. That is to say, the neoliberal effects of bioethics have become so pervasive and insidious in philosophy that the discipline and profession have, in many ways, become extensions of the medico-scientific-industrial complex. Indeed, few philosophy departments (in […]