(What is) Feminist Metaphysics?

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“What is metaphysics?” is a question highly debated and not easy to answer. In contemporary philosophy, metaphysics is often understood as the area of the discipline that asks (and tries to answer) “what is x?”-questions, that is, questions that target the nature, definition or “essence” of things broadly construed (i.e., objects as well as ideas and concepts). We tend to think that trying to answer questions of this kind should be an objective, neutral enterprise – in the end, things are what they are, aren’t they? So what would a distinctively feminist perspective on metaphysics look like?

Join the talk with Ariane Schenck, Assistant Professor at the University of Bielefeld, Germany,  to learnabout the feminist metaphysics as a sub-field that has one deconstructive and one constructive objective. First, it shows that much of traditional metaphysics is not as neutral and objective as it is commonly thought, and, second, it highlights topics and concepts so far overlooked in traditional metaphysics. Schneck will also illustrate both objectives with the current debate about the metaphysics of gender.

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