How should we understand the reality of social phenomena such as Race, Gender, and Disability? Are they grounded in objective features of the world, such as biological or economic facts? or by our communal beliefs and intentions? How, in general, should we understand the metaphysics of ‘social construction’, and what kind of reality do socially constructed entities enjoy? And what does all of this entail for efforts to combat injustice based on these categories? Can the construction of these categories be reversed – and should it be?
All speakers:
, University of Virginia
, University of Notre Dame
, Stockholm University
, University of St. Andrews
, Yale University
, Tufts University
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Katharine Jenkins, Nottingham University
, University of Vienna
, University of Oxford
, Oxford University
, Rutgers University - New Brunswick
, University of Pennsylvania
Aness Webster, Nottingham University
Please join us on Friday 10-12 July in Arts Centre Lecture Theatre (A30), 糖心原创. You are able to register