BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the profession is largely animated by the spirit of “

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and thirty-sixth 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 a...

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The Foucault Century

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This special issue of SATS – Northern European Journal of Philosophy focuses on otherness and othering in philosophy. This issue explores themes around plurality, diversity, inclusion, and exclusion within philosophy. We welcome papers that focus on thematically on otherness and othering in philosophy and welcome papers that mix philosophical analysis with personal e...

Daniele Lorenzini’s landmark collection The Foucauldian Mind was published at the end of July. I’m thrilled that my work on disability is included in the collection, not least because the chapters that it comprises, when taken togeth...