Tue 20 Dec
|Online Lecture
Heather Burnett (CNRS, Paris)
Heather Burnett is a Senior Research Scientist at the CNRS, working in the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle at the Université de Paris. Her work involves describing new patterns of structure, meaning and communication in natural languages, and developing mathematical tools for analyzing them.
TIME & LOCATION
20 Dec 2022, 15:00 – 17:00 CET
Online Lecture
ABOUT THE EVENT
TITLE. — CONCEPTUAL SPACES FOR CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING? FEMINISM AS A CASE STUDY (in collaboration with Lina Bendifallah, Julie Abbou, and Igor Douven)
ABSTRACT. — This paper argues that the conceptual spaces framework can be helpful to philosophers engaged in the project of conceptual engineering, even for concepts in the social domain. Recently, there has been much research into conceptual engineering (and related processes explication and amelioration) of concepts central to feminist inquiry and activism, most obviously gender following Haslanger (2000) (see Witt 2011; Jenkins 2016; Díaz León 2020 among many others), but also sexism and misogyny (Manne 2017). Our paper continues in the same vein as this previous work in analytic feminism and aims to explicate a series of other concepts which are important for feminist research and activism: feminist political identity terms. To this end, we will explore how the Conceptual Spaces Framework (CSF; Gärdenfors 2000, 2014) can be…