“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 “The Dialogues on Disability platform … has been very helpful to me, especially at times where I did not feel I belong in the world of […]
My New Article in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
My article “Field Notes on the Naturalization and Denaturalization of Disability in (Feminist) Philosophy: What They Do and How They Do It” was published today in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (vol. 6, no. 3, 2020). You can find my article here: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/9395/8720 The article seems especially pertinent this morning given the ongoing intransigent refusal of philosophers […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Johnathan Flowers
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the sixty-fifth 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 […]
Acid Horizon Podcast about Feminist Philosophy of Disability, Foucault, The Exclusion of Disabled Philosophers, Etc.
Last week, I recorded a podcast with Acid Horizon about my work on feminist philosophy of disability and philosophy of disability, more generally, as well as exclusion of disabled philosophers from the profession of philosophy, the criticism that Foucault can’t address the phenomenology of the body, and my article “This is What a Historicist and […]
List of Speakers for Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change
Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change, the online conference that I mentioned last week, is four months away; yet, already, anticipation and excitement about the event have started to build. Indeed, I predict that Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change will be the philosophy conference of the year. Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change, which Jonathan Wolff and […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, August 19th, 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 “The Dialogues on Disability platform … has been very helpful to me, especially at times where I did not feel I belong in the world of academic […]
Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change (December 2020)
Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) and I will be running an online conference in December, over three consecutive weekday afternoons (U.K. time), on the theme of “Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change.” The full conference program, which will comprise the hottest names in philosophy of disability and provide details about dates and times, will be posted on BIOPOLITICAL […]
Philosophy’s Disability Problem
That disability is naturalized and depoliticized in philosophy and beyond is one of the central reasons why philosophy of disability remains marginalized in the discipline and why disabled philosophers, especially disabled philosophers of disability, continue to be excluded from philosophy departments in Canada and elsewhere. For more than fifteen years, my research and writing have […]
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 […]
Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science
The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science, edited by Sharon Crasnow and Kristen Intemann, will be out in November and can be pre-ordered at the book’s page now. My contribution to the collection is entitled “Naturalizing and Denaturalizing Impairment and Disability in Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy of Science.” The full table of contents appears […]
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