PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: If And Only If, Social Fact, Sally Haslanger
6 Dec 2015
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Sally haslanger, gender and race: (what) are they? (what) do we want them to. Be? the analytical approach to gender and race: distinguishing analytical approach from other approaches conceptual approach. What we mean when we talk about these concepts addressing yourself as to how it is ordinarily used. Establish limits of the kind in question. Who counts? (as men/women/etc: analytical approach consider the pragmatics of the use of terms. Might explain and revise the terms for practical reasons, not just theoretical. Women are marked as sexually subordinate: normativity. Any definition of women will produce privileges and marginalization. truths are asserted for a certain reason our pragmatic purposes? criteria for distinguishing groups differ and is more political than natural. Gender is partly political (a social fact) and not simply biological: pattern of social relations that constitute the social class of men as dominant. Only then can we read them as men/women.
