Videos of the “Feminist Approaches to Logic” Workshop

The recent workshop, “Feminist Approaches to Logic,” organized by Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas at the National University of Mexico, delved into incorporating formal logic into the fight for social justice. Specific talks covered topics such as stereotypical expectations, liberatory logics, feminist arithmetic, and the discoveries of Christine Ladd-Franklin in contemporary modal logic.

Feminist Approaches to Logic

Feminist Approaches to Logic Workshop Ángeles ErañaMaureen EckertThomas M. FergusonAxel Arturo BarcelóRoy T. CookGillian Russell Tuesday January 9th, 11:00 – 19:00Wednesday January 10th, 10:00 – 17:30 Sala José Gaos (main floor, IIFs-UNAM, Mexico City)Live broadcast on: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=filosoficas No habrá traducción simultáneaFurther Information: non.logic.iif@gmail.comOrganized by Sandra D. Cuenca, Luis Estrada González and Miguel Ángel Trejo Huerta

Factors that May Contribute to Logic’s Lack of Diversity

“What might the factors be that contribute to [logic’s] lack of diversity? At the undergraduate level, students from less socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds may lack information about [the philosophy major or about logic as a possible field of specialization]. In some cases, less-privileged students may lack the opportunity to take [logic at all (for example, because […]

Hermeneutic Vanity

We finally make a word in. We finally get to say something about us, about our experience. They finally get quiet for just an instant and we are heard. But they are so used to it always being about them, about their lives, their values, their experiences that they immediately interpret our words in a […]

¿Siempre debemos hacerle el bien a la gente?

Una de las preguntas centrales de la filosofía moral es ¿cuándo estamos justificados a no hacerle un bien a alguien? Es decir, si sabemos que hay algo que podemos hacer y que le haría un bien a alguien (entendido este “alguien” en un sentido suficientemente amplio para cubrir tanto a individuos como colectividades, tanto a […]

Why do we even teach logic, and to whom?

At. A recent meeting of the buenos Aires Logic Group in Argentina, Sara Uckelman, from Durham University in the UK, gave a very interesting talk on the importance of the history of logic. For starters, by “the history of logic”, she did not mean (just) who proved what or who developed which technique, etc. Instead, […]

Call for Papers on “Disease, illness, sickness: philosophical perspectives”

“In the area of “medical humanities.” the notions of disease, illness and sickness refer, respectively, to biological, experiential and social aspects of the disease (Aho & Aho 2008). This shows the relevance of this phenomenon, the multiplicity of perspectives under which it can be studied and the richness of its meaning. In recent years, numerous […]

Forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language

Oxford University has just announced the forthcoming publication of The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernie Lepore and Luvell Anderson. Description of the book’s cover: A cartoon image of a half-open mouth next to several speech balloons with the names of the editors on the top right corner. Underneath the image, the […]

Language and Social Construction

Signs and languages are very useful tools for social coordination and thus play a central role in most, if not all, social practices, but I doubt they are actually necessary to achieve meaningful social interaction or at least interactions that generate normative expectations, and not just patterns of actions and re-actions. Consider the example of […]