Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and fourteenth 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 […]
30% Off The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability During This Back-To-School Sale!
Now is your chance to pick up copies of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, the cutting-edge resource for your teaching and research, at an additional discount. Assign the book to your students! Until October 6, 11:59pm ET, Bloomsbury Publishers is offering a 30% discount on its books in its back-to-school sale, including The […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 8 a.m. 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 […]
Update on Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, Dec. 11-13, 2024
This week, I am putting together the program for the fifth edition of the Philosophy, Disability and Social Change conference. You should expect the program to look quite different than it has in past years. For I have reformatted both the overall structure of the conference and the structure of sessions themselves to enable a […]
Appeals to Merit and Luck as Forms of Structural Gaslighting
Two longstanding concerns of analytic liberal political philosophy and ethics are how to justify egalitarianism and how a theory of egalitarianism should deal with so-called human variation. These concerns have given rise to questions about what people are owed and what they deserve. Are social inequalities between individuals justified if they occur due to differences […]
Ableist Language and Other Everyday Assaults on Disabled People
This return to a post of January 2019 is a reminder that the use of ableist language is not merely about a certain choice of words but rather produces (and reproduces) certain ableist ontologies and epistemologies. Some philosophers and theorists of disability continue to employ the ableist term people with disabilities which has been dubbed […]
CFA: Special Issue of Wicazo Sa Review-Indigeneity and Disability: Honoring All Our Relations
Wicazo Sa Review is honored to announce a call for abstracts for a special issue on Indigeneity and Disability: Honoring All Our Relations. We seek articles, stories, essays, artwork, photography and poetry to highlight the important spectrum of diversity across our tribal nations. Indigenous peoples have their own unique worldviews and stories of diverse relations rooted […]
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 […]
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 […]
Forthcoming Publication, “Foucault: The Premier Disabled Philosopher of Disability (My Love Letter to Foucault),” Now Online!
In previous BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY posts (e.g., here), I shared excerpts of my forthcoming chapter, “Foucault: The Premier Disabled Philosopher of Disability (My Love Letter to Foucault),” which will appear in The Foucauldian Mind, edited by Daniele Lorenzini (Routledge, 2026). As I indicated in the previous posts, October 15, 2026, will mark the centennial anniversary of […]
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