What do wages do? Feminist theory in austere times
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Part of the Gender Institute 2014 Public Lecture Series, Feminist Theory Now Speaker's abstract: What can money do? Can it be put to work to address deepening forms of social and economic inequality associated with the global financial crisis, recession and still unfolding politics of austerity?…
George Tsai (ANU/Hawaii): On Being Supportive
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In recent years, philosophers have offered illuminating accounts of important dimensions of our interpersonal lives, such as love, care, trust, loyalty, and friendship. However, they have been surprisingly silent on the related though distinct phenomenon of being supportive. Concentrating on "thick…
Benjamin Kiesewetter (ANU/HU Berlin): The normativity of rationality
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Sometimes our intentions and beliefs exhibit a structure that proves us to be irrational. Is there anything wrong with that? Should we be rational rather than irrational? In other words, is rationality normative? Intuitively, the answer to this question is ‘yes’. Calling someone irrational amounts…
Brentyn Ramm (ANU): First-person Experiments
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First-person approaches to investigating experience are often criticised for their inability to resolve phenomenological disputes. Does a tilted plate look elliptical in some sense or does it look like a tilted circle (or both)? Philosophers disagree. Are there reliable first-person methods…