When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability

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  • Shelley Lynn Tremain BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Keywords:

apparatus of disability, conceptual revolution, ontology, structural gaslighting

Abstract

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 tools of “analytic” philosophy that philosophers of moral responsibility theory employ to establish the philosophical ___domain in which they engage have distinctly detrimental effects on disabled people.

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Author Biography

Shelley Lynn Tremain, BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Shelley Lynn Tremain (she/they/settler/disabled feminist killjoy) is coordinator of the philosophy blog BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY; author of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2017), the manuscript for which was awarded the 2016 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities; editor of two editions of Foucault and the Government of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2005; 2015), the first edition of which has been translated into Korean; and editor of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). From April 2015, Tremain has coordinated, edited, and produced Dialogues on Disability, the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed series of interviews that she is conducting with disabled philosophers and posts to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month.

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2024-05-30 — Updated on 2024-05-30

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How to Cite

Tremain, Shelley Lynn. 2024. “When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability”. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 10 (1/2). https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/18720.

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1/2 (2024): Revolutionizing Responsibility

Section

Special Issue: Revolutionizing Responsibility

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