ll Dipartimento di Filosofia “Piero Martinetti” presenta:
Caterina Marchionni (University of Helsinki), with Marion Godman (Aarhus University)
Rethinking Values in the Study of Interactive Human Kinds
Abtract:
How should we study human kinds like gender, race, and disability, which are deeply tied to our values and identities, but whose properties may change in consequences of scientists’ efforts at understanding them? In this paper, we contrast two approaches to studying these kinds: the emancipatory approach, which models human kinds in ways that explicitly advance the goals of emancipation and social justice, and the representational approach, which aims to describe them as accurately as possible, independent of any specific political or societal aim. We address a common critique of the emancipatory approach, which argues that achieving their political and social goals requires accurate knowledge of these kinds, which it is argued can only obtained through a representational approach. We argue that this assumption is flawed, showing that while emancipation does require accurate knowledge of the kinds, of the mechanisms that bring them about and change them, and of generalizations in which they partake, a purely representational approach is neither necessary nor sufficient when we are concerned with human kinds that are interactive and imbued with values.
Il talk fa parte del ciclo Normative Kinds Seminars ed è finanziato dal PRIN “Normative Kinds” – PI: Francesco Guala.
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La partecipazione è calorosamente consigliata agli studenti di dottorato Hume e FSU.
Dove: Sala Piero Martinetti, Cortile Ghiacciaia, I piano, Via Festa del Perdono, 7, Milano.
Quando: 22/04/2025 – Ore 14:30-16:30 CET
Contatti
Davide Serpico: davide.serpico1@unimi.it