{"id":9032,"date":"2022-09-14T21:58:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/epistemology-current-themes-seminar-online-sally-haslanger-mit-ideology-culture-and-social-meaning\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T21:58:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:58:56","slug":"epistemology-current-themes-seminar-online-sally-haslanger-mit-ideology-culture-and-social-meaning","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/epistemology-current-themes-seminar-online-sally-haslanger-mit-ideology-culture-and-social-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Epistemology Current Themes Seminar (Online): Sally Haslanger (MIT) &#8220;Ideology, Culture, and Social Meaning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: My aim in this paper is to sketch a conception of ideology that draws on the critical theory tradition. This conception of ideology is a response to a particular challenge for those working on social justice: Why is it that most of us, most of the time, act in ways that perpetuate injustice? To begin to answer this question, I will develop an account, inspired by Althusser among others, that embeds ideology in social practices. Social practices enable both human and non-human animals to coordinate fluently and flexibly in response to each other and our environment; and they depend on something like a \u201clanguage\u201d \u2013 a system of signs and signals \u2013 that makes socially intelligible agency possible. I call such a framework of meaning and its material apparatus a cultural techn\u0113. I go on to argue that Grice\u2019s distinction between natural and non-natural meaning is too coarse to provide us an account of social meaning, and drawing on Skyrms and others working on signals, I propose that a cultural techn\u0113 is a framework or system of signs. I then consider how we might capture the publicity of social meanings in terms that don\u2019t require complex metacognition. I conclude that account of ideology as a cultural techn\u0113 \u201cgone wrong\u201d provides us the basics of a critical account of ideology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: My aim in this paper is to sketch a conception of ideology that draws on the critical theory tradition. This conception of ideology is a response to a particular&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5],"class_list":["post-9032","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-epistemology-seminar","cat_epistemology-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/9032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/9032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}