In this extremely competitive job market, Nathan Cofnas was recently hired to a postdoctoral position at Ghent University (UGhent) in Belgium. Confas is best known for his research on “race realism” – specifically, the claim that Black people are less intelligent than White people due to genetic inferiority, or, as he euphemistically puts it, there are “group differences […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the fifty-seventh 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 […]
One of The Latest Faces of Ableism in Philosophy
In my most recent post of the Philosophy of Disability: Present and Future series, I explained some of Foucault’s ideas about the productive character of power, including the idea that power is most effective that enables subjects to act in order to constrain them. One of the most effective ways in which relations of productive […]
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