Feminist Philosophy of Disability: A Genealogical Intervention

Author(s)Shelley Lynn Tremain
JournalThe Southern Journal of Philosophy
AbstractThis 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, rationality, and objectivity, the institutionalized structure of the discipline implicitly and explicitly promotes certain ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies as bona fide philosophy, while casting the ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies of marginalized philosophies as mere simulacra of allegedly fundamental ways of knowing and doing philosophy and thus rendering these marginalized philosophies more or less expendable. This article is designed to show that legitimized philosophical discourses are vital mechanisms in the problematization of disability.
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Date Published March, 2019
Volume57
Issue1
Pages132-158
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12312
Google Scholar Linkhttps://scholar.google.ca/scholar?cluster=14384880346502900381&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5
Open Access?No

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