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    When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability
    Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 10 (1). 2024.
    In this article, I aim to demonstrate that moral responsibility theory produces, legitimates, and even magnifies the considerable social injustice that accrues to disabled people insofar as it implicitly and explicitly promotes a depoliticized ontology of disability that construes disability as a naturally disadvantageous personal characteristic or deleterious property of individuals rather than identifies it as an effect of power, an apparatus. In particular, I argue that the methodological too…Read more
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    The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability (edited book)
    Bloomsbury Academic. 2024.
    _The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability_ is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges how disability has historically been represented and understood in philosophy: it critically undermines the detrimental assumptions that various subfields of philosophy produce; resists the institutionalized ableism of academia to which these assu…Read more
  •  451
    Philosophy of Disability, Conceptual Engineering, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex in Canada
    International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies 4 (1): 10-33. 2021.
    ABSTRACT In this article, I indicate how the naturalized and individualized conception of disability that prevails in philosophy informs the indifference of philosophers to the predictable COVID-19 tragedy that has unfolded in nursing homes, supported living centers, psychiatric institutions, and other institutions in which elders and younger disabled people are placed. I maintain that, insofar as feminist and other discourses represent these institutions as sites of care and love, they enact st…Read more
  •  263
    Introduction: Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic
    International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies 4 (1): 6-9. 2021.
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    One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2 (1): 181-184. 2009.
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    Abstract In this article, I offer an account of how the individualized and medicalized conception of disability that prevailsin philosophy is naturalized in bioethics, cognitive science, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and other subfields of the discipline. By the end of the article, I will have both indicated how disabled people are constituted in philosophical discourse as a problem to be rectified or eliminated and explained how the prevalence in philosophy of this naturalized conc…Read more
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    Feminist Philosophy of Disability: A Genealogical Intervention
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 57 (1): 132-158. 2019.
    This article is a feminist intervention into the ways that disability is researched and represented in philosophy at present. Nevertheless, some of the claims that I make over the course of the article are also pertinent to the marginalization in philosophy of other areas of inquiry, including philosophy of race, feminist philosophy more broadly, indigenous philosophies, and LGBTQI philosophy. Although the discipline of philosophy largely continues to operate under the guise of neutrality, ratio…Read more
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    Philosophy of Disability as Critical Diversity Studies
    International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies 1 (1). 2018.
    Critical diversity studies (CDS) can be found within “traditional,” or “established,” university disciplines, such as philosophy, as well as in relatively newer departments of the university, such as African studies departments, women’s and gender studies departments, and disability studies departments. In this article, therefore, I explain why philosophy of disability, an emerging subfield in the discipline of philosophy, should be recognized as an emerging area of CDS also. My discussion in th…Read more
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    Reshaping the Polis: An Introduction
    Journal of Social Philosophy 48 (3): 244-249. 2017.
  • An Anti-Ableist Reexamination of Disablement and Social Justice
    Dissertation, York University (Canada). 1998.
    In this dissertation, I examine the theories of four influential non-utilitarian liberals order to demonstrate that none of them promotes social justice for disabled people. I argue that each of these theorists misconstrues the disadvantages that disabled people confront because they each assume conceptions of disablement that are inadequate to account for its phenomena. I also introduce the way in which philosophers should reconceptualize disablement. To reconceptualize disablement in this way,…Read more
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    Philosophy and the Apparatus of Disability
    In Adam Cureton & David Wasserman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Oxford University Press. 2018.
    Abstract and Keywords Mainstream philosophers take for granted that disability is a prediscursive, transcultural, and transhistorical disadvantage, an objective human defect or characteristic that ought to be prevented, corrected, eliminated, or cured. That these assumptions are contestable, that it might be the case that disability is a historically and culturally specific, contingent social phenomenon, a complex apparatus of power, rather than a natural attribute or property that certain peopl…Read more
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    Until now, philosophical debate about human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research has largely been limited to its ethical dimensions and implications. Although the importance and urgency of these ethical debates should not be underestimated, the almost undivided attention that mainstream and feminist philosophers have paid to the ethical dimensions of hESC research suggests that the only philosophically interesting questions and concerns about it are by and large ethical in nature. My argument goe…Read more
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    : This article critically examines the constitution of impairment in prenatal testing and screening practices and various discourses that surround these technologies. While technologies to test and screen prenatally are claimed to enhance women's capacity to be self-determining, make informed reproductive choices, and, in effect, wrest control of their bodies from a patriarchal medical establishment, I contend that this emerging relation between pregnant women and reproductive technologies is a …Read more
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    ABSTRACT: With this article, I advance a historicist and relativist feminist philosophy of disability. I argue that Foucault’s insights offer the most astute tools with which to engage in this intellectual enterprise. Genealogy, the technique of investigation that Friedrich Nietzsche famously introduced and that Foucault took up and adapted in his own work, demonstrates that Foucault’s historicist approach has greater explanatory power and transgressive potential for analyses of disability than …Read more
  • Dworkin on Disablement and Resources
    Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 9 (2): 343-359. 1996.
    In “Why Should Liberals Care about Equality?,” Ronald Dworkin distinguishes between two forms of liberalism, one form based on neutrality, and the other one based on equality. As Dworkin explains it, proponents of both forms argue against legal incursion into private morality, and argue in favour of increased sexual, political, racial, and economic equality; however, they disagree about which of these traditionally liberal values is the fundamental one, and which is its derivative. Liberalism ba…Read more
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    Foucault and the Government of Disability (edited book)
    University of Michigan Press. 2005.
    The provocative essays in this volume respond to Foucault's call to question what is regarded as natural, inevitable, ethical, and liberating, while they ...
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    Feminists have indicated the inadequacies of bioethical debates about human embryonic stem cell research, which have for the most part revolved around concerns about the moral status of the human embryo. Feminists have argued, for instance, that inquiry concerning the ethics and politics of human embryonic stem cell research should consider the relations of social power in which the research is embedded. My argument is that this feminist work on stem cells is itself inadequate, however, insofar …Read more