---------- Forwarded message --------- The Leiden Centre for Theoretical Philosophy (Leiden University) will host an online talk by Prof. Kit Fine (NYU), titled ‘The Logic and Metaphysics of Gender’.
Abstract: What is it to be a woman in a sense that is inclusive of trans women? This question raises a number of difficult conceptual issues, foremost among which is the problem of circularity. For it has often been taken to be at least partly definitive of a trans woman that they be an individual who is identified as a woman. But what then is this concept of woman that appears in the definiens? If it is the same as the concept of woman to be defined, we appear to have a vicious circularity; and if it is taken to be different from the concept to be defined, then it is hard to see how identification with a woman in one sense can make one a woman in some other sense. All writers who have discussed this problem have assumed that the circularity is somehow to be avoided. I shall argue that it is not and that the circularity is of a benign sort, characteristic of response dependent concepts in general. To this end, I shall outline a theory of response dependent concepts and show how it is able to provide an inclusive definition of woman, a definition which allows that identification as a woman in the proper circumstances will, as a matter of definition, make one a woman. I shall also argue that the resulting circularity in the definition is not merely harmless but positively beneficial in that it enables one to see one’s gender as something that is up to you in a way that other accounts are not able to accommodate and in that it enables one to see womanhood not simply as a classification to which women belong but as a social group to which an individual may take themselves be affiliated. When: April 30, 17:00 - 19:00 CET. Platform: Zoom. Registration: please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdeRwF7xzVfvKe6RuRiUxrCL7IGwVvReCXdwFwU0kcCPab9cA/viewform You will receive the link to the Zoom meeting a day before the lecture on the registered email address. If you have any questions please contact the organizer: Martin Lipman, [email protected]. The talk is organized as part of the NWO funded project A Fragmented World: A New Philosophical Approach to Perspectival Facts. -- Você está recebendo esta mensagem porque se inscreveu no grupo "LOGICA-L" dos Grupos do Google. Para cancelar inscrição nesse grupo e parar de receber e-mails dele, envie um e-mail para [email protected]. Para ver esta discussão na web, acesse https://groups.google.com/a/dimap.ufrn.br/d/msgid/logica-l/CAO6j_LjL_-5Z_fOc-RAOGt9-OB25%2B_GqU7vec9WBaEtfiYyT-w%40mail.gmail.com.
