- The assumption that disability is a philosophically uninteresting human characteristic, and 
- The underrepresentation of disabled philosophers within the profession. 
Tremain argues that these are inseparably embedded in the institutional infrastructure of the discipline, "mutually constitutive and mutually reinforcing."

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Philosophy as a field has long assumed that disabled people’s inequalities come naturally from their bodies, not from society. Because of that, philosophers think that disability is something for doctors and scientists to deal with- not something for philosophy to question or analyze. This bias keeps philosophy from recognizing that disability itself is a philosophical and political issue- one that involves power, history, and how we define what it means to be human. 

Mainstream Philosophy's Self-Removal from Critical Analysis of Disability

Tremain, S. L. (2017). Foucault and feminist philosophy of disability. University of Michigan Press.

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