Spinoza Lecture: Ideology and Morality
Sally Haslanger will hold the Spinoza Chair of the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities in the second term of the academic year 2014-2015 and will be delivering the accompanying two Spinoza Lectures on 'Critical Theory and Practice'.
Haslanger’s second Spinoza Lecture is entitled ‘Ideology and Morality’. Because our societies are unjust, our practices are the proper objects of moral scrutiny and moral criticism. However, certain traditions of ideology critique resist normative, especially moral, commitments. By examining the workings of race and gender ideology, the lecture challenges the critical tradition of relying entirely on contradiction to ground immanent critique and explores alternative contextualist and naturalist options for social critique.
On Thursday 9 April, Haslanger will be holding the first Spinoza Lecture entitled ‘Ideology and Materiality’.
About Sally Haslanger
Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her most recent book, Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique (Oxford 2012) received the Joseph B. Gittler Award for outstanding scholarly work in the philosophy of one or more of the social sciences. Haslanger earned her PhD at the University of California-Berkeley (1985) after receiving an MA at the University of Virginia (1979) and a BA at Reed College (1977).
The Spinoza Lectures
The Spinoza Lectures are given by high-profile thinkers of our time. They are intended for a wide audience that would like to keep abreast of current developments in philosophy. Publishing House Van Gorcum will publish the texts of the Spinoza Lectures.
Practical information
- Date and time: Thursday 21 May 2015, at 20:15. The Agnietenkapel is open at 19:30.
- Entrance: admission is free (no reservation required).
- Language: The lectures will be given in English.
For more information, send an email to secr.wijs-fgw@uva.nl.
Location
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Agnietenkapel
Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 - 231 | 1012 EZ Amsterdam
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