58吃瓜

Wee gathering to hang, catch up, and start the new academic year. All welcome! Drinks and snacks provided.

Title: Why it Matters When 鈥淗uman鈥� Means 鈥淲hite鈥� or 鈥淢an鈥� Abstract: This paper is part of a larger project that seeks to vindicate a claim often made in feminist and decolonial theory, but whose relevance to political philosophy is rarely understood: the claim that the concept of the human has been a vehicle of oppression.…

Title: 聽‘What聽can(not)聽social聽norms聽do?’ Abstract: In this (very) exploratory paper I investigate the relationship between social normativity and other domains of normativity. I suggest that given a metaphysically productive relationship between pernicious social norms and ideological social construction, pernicious social norms can create ontologically oppressive kinds, and consequently this can mar some seemingly valuable features of epistemic…

Title: Misogynistic Dehumanization Abstract: The idea that women qua women can be dehumanized has been dismissed by feminist philosophers, like Kate Manne, and by philosophers of dehumanization, like David Livingstone Smith. Against these skeptics, I argue that we can and should use dehumanization to explain an important strand of misogyny. When they are dehumanized, women…

Title: Feminism and Multiculturalism: Measuring Gendered Cultural Harms Abstract: Deeply ingrained in the multiculturalism versus feminism debate is the idea that certain minority practices are more deserving of attention and criticism for their misogynistic undertones than other (liberal) practices. In this talk, I鈥檒l consider one of the potential reasons for this asymmetrical focus on minorities.…

Title: Why Professors Should Not Sleep With Their Students 鈥� The Epistemology of Consent and Professor-Student Sex Abstract: My main interest is explaining the wrong involved in professors (or any teaching staff) sleeping with their students, and to consider the viability of explaining at least some of the harm in a consent framework. While alternative…