Call for Papers: Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to the Indigenous Philosophy of Turtle Island. Timeline: Book chapters due May 15, 2022. This book is under contract with Broadview Press. Original publication was planned for 2022, but has now been pushed to 2023. Complications due to the global Covid 19 pandemic have made […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred Redux
With Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 2 just moments behind us, it has been a busy month for disabled philosophers. So, I decided that this month we should be reinvigorated with Raymond Aldred’s fabulous interview from December 2019. Enjoy! ___________________________________________________ Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the fifty-seventh installment of […]
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science – 20% Off!
The new Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science, edited by Sharon Crasnow and Kristen Intemann, was published earlier this month. The collection comprises chapters by leading thinkers across a range of areas of feminist philosophy and other subfields. I am both honoured and humbled to be amongst them. Like most handbooks and readers, this […]
Philosophy and Mohawk Girls
Based on the documentary of the same name directed by the award-winning filmmaker Tracey Deer (Mohawk), Mohawk Girls was a critically-acclaimed comedy-drama series (Tracey Deer, director) that, from 2014-2016, aired continuously through five seasons on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). The main characters of the series were four Mohawk women, Anna, Bailey, Caitlin, and […]
The Question of Inclusion in Philosophy: Alcoff, Mills, and Tremain Join LaVine and Lewis
In the previous post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, I mentioned a podcast that Linda Alcoff, Charles Mills, and I would be recording for the Larger, Freer, More Loving series hosted by Matthew J LaVine and Dwight Lewis. The motivation to record the discussion was the announcement about the SSHRC project “Extending New Narratives in the History […]
Ableism and Racism in Canadian Philosophy
I hope that by now many of you have read or listened to the comment thread of the June 25th post at Daily Nous about the large grant that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded to the “Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy” project. In case you didn’t, here […]
Interviews with Black & Indigenous Disabled Philosophers
June 2015: Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Tommy Curry August 2015: Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Anne Waters September 2015: Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Ray Aldred December 2015: Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Damion Kareem Scott September 2016: Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Elvis Imafidon November 2016: Dialogues on […]
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 […]
Adding BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY To Your Toolbox
As we continue to foster a readership/listenership across continents, I want to encourage readers and listeners who either come here regularly or have only recently found us to draw upon the resources that BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY offers. If you browse through our pages, posts, and archives, you will find essays, reprinted articles, CFPs, and other items […]
Philosophy Beyond the “Now,” Massey University, Albany Campus, Jun. 21-22, 2019
2nd Michigan State and Massey Universities Philosophy Symposium This conference is an invitation to come together and imagine futurities beyond this now. We invite panels and participants to take part in two days of discussion aimed at exploring and thinking beyond the “now” towards worlds other than and better than this. We encourage panels and […]
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