Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-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 […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, October 15, 2025
“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 “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
Strawsonian Responsibility and the Capacities Criterion: Three Critiques from the Margins
The following is the script for my presentation at the Eastern APA on 01/11/2025. This is a revised version of an earlier presentation, edited to focus on a common foundation of Strawson’s exempted categories: the capacities criterion, which states that adult neurotypical human beings are exclusively or canonically morally responsible. The special issue of Feminist Philosophy […]
“Revolutionizing Responsibility,” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 10, nos. 1/2, 2024 – Guest edited by Mich Ciurria
Mich Ciurria’s double special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, whose theme is “Revolutionizing Responsibility,” has now been published (online). The issue comprises thirteen peer-reviewed articles (including my article “When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability”) plus an introduction by Mich. The full double issue is here: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/issue/view/1686 Many congratulations to Mich for this […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews August Gorman
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain. I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and first 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 […]
¿Siempre debemos hacerle el bien a la gente?
Una de las preguntas centrales de la filosofía moral es ¿cuándo estamos justificados a no hacerle un bien a alguien? Es decir, si sabemos que hay algo que podemos hacer y que le haría un bien a alguien (entendido este “alguien” en un sentido suficientemente amplio para cubrir tanto a individuos como colectividades, tanto a […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 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 […]
Publication: When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability
The (penultimate, i.e., uncopyedited) version of my article “When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability” is now on PhilPapers here: https://philpapers.org/rec/TREWMR The article will appear in Mich Ciurria’s special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on feminist approaches to moral responsibility theory. The abstract for the article appears below: In this article, I aim to demonstrate […]