Feminist Philosophy Reading Group
Easter Term 2024
This term the feminist philosophy reading group will be thinking about free speech and academic freedom.
The plan is to read (most of) an OUP edited volume on Academic Freedom (2018). Please find the schedule for the term below and the readings here. As usual, we will be meeting in the Grad Common Room in the Philosophy Faculty on Wednesdays, 2-3pm. Our first meeting will be on May 1st.
May 1st: Introduction by Lackey and ch.2 'Academic Freedom and the Politics of Truth' by Lynch
May 8th: ch. 3 'Is there a 'Safe Space' for Academic Freedom' by Moody-Adams
May 15th: ch. 4 'Two Concepts of Free Speech' by Pettit and ch. 5 'The Realpolitik of Academic Freedom' by Protevi
May 22nd: ch. 6 'Freedom of Research Area' by Weatherson and ch. 7 'Beyond Just Silencing' by Saul
May 29th: ch. 8 'On Political Correctness, Microaggressions, and Silencing in the Academic' by McGowan and ch. 9 'When Protest and Speech Collide' by Estlund
June 5th: ch. 9 'Civil Disobedience and Free Speech in the Academy' by Nussbaum and ch. 10 'No Platforming' by Simpson and Srinivasan
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Lent Term 2024
The Feminist Philosophy Reading Group will be continuing this term. We meet on Wednesdays at 2pm in the Postgraduate Common Room and everyone is welcome to join!
We will begin this term by reading Kate Manne's forthcoming work Unshrinking, due to be published next January. Kate has kindly agreed to us reading her book pre-publication and she will join us via Zoom on our last meeting.
The Feminist Philosophy Reading Group usually reads new book-length work in feminist philosophy. In the past, we looked at Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex, Katharine Jenkins' Ontology and Oppression, Kate Manne's Entitled, Mari Mikkola's forthcoming work 'dissident theorising', and Clare Chambers' The Unmodified Body.
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