February 20, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
CLAYMAN INSTITUTE
589 CAPISTRANO WAY
STANFORD, CA 94305
589 CAPISTRANO WAY
STANFORD, CA 94305
Speaker(s):
Clayman Faculty Affiliates are welcome to attend the lunch seminars. All current Stanford academics are eligible to become Clayman Institute Faculty Affiliates. Please RSVP to Wendy Skidmore (wskid@stanford.edu) if you wish to attend.
Ray Briggs: "All The Feels"
We argue that the concept of gender identity is overloaded in a way that enables medical gatekeeping and transphobic rhetoric, and obstructs self-discovery for trans people. The overloading of this concept constitutes a hermeneutical injustice: the phenomenon that occurs, in Miranda Fricker's words, "when a gap in collective interpretive resources puts someone at an unfair disadvantage when it comes to making sense of their social experiences." We propose a replacement concept, gender feels, which we argue has the potential to paint a more just and accurate picture of trans experience.
Ray Briggs is Professor of Philosophy.
