Ways Of Knowing: Feminist Philosophy of Science and Epistemology

Society for Women in Philosophy – Ireland

4th Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting

Dublin, November 27 and 28, 2015

Friday November 27

 

Venue: UCD Newman House, 86 St Stephen’s Green

 

 

9.00-9.30 Registration

 

Session 1. A. 9.30 -11.00

Physics Theater, Newman House

Opening Welcome followed by

Plenary Session 1

Feminist Epistemology and the Relativist Menace

Maria Baghramian (UCD)

Kathleen Lennon (University of Hull)

Expressing the World: Merleau-Ponty and the new feminist materialisms

11.00-11.30 Coffee

 

 

Parallel Session 1 A: 11.30-1.00

Lecture Theater, Newman House

The Pragmatism and Problems of Ecological Thinking

Devin Fitzpatrick, University of Oregon

Epistemic Diversity and Gender Neutrality: On the Possibility of Embodiment without Essentialism

Nicolle Brancazio, University of Memphis

 The Truth of the Matter

Helen Mussell,  University of Cambridge

Parallel Session 1.B: 11.30-1.00

Physics Theatre, Newman House

 

Imaginative ResistanceExpanded

Amber Rose Carlson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Testimonial Injustice: A second-personal account

Audra Goodnight, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri

Parallel Session 2 A 2.30-4.00

Lecture Theatre, Newman House

 

CanNon-CognitiveValuesHaveaBeneficialRoleintheAssessmentofScientificTheories?ACase Study of EvolutionaryPsychology Silvia Ivani Tilburg University, The Nerherlands  

Expertise and Gender in Science

Darcy McCusker, University of Washington

Theory-Ladenness and Pluralism in an Experimental Context

Jamie Shaw, University of Western Ontario   1.00-2.30 Iveagh Room, Newman House Annual General Meeting of SWIP Ireland Sandwich lunch provided   Parallel Session 2B 2.30-4.00 Physics Theater

Battling Epistemic Injustice: More Poetry Than Prose

Sandra Skene, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Stopgap: The Play of Ignorance in Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent

Katherine O’Donnell, UCD

Vertical Rolls: Performing a Gendered Reading of Bernard Stiegler

EL Putnam, Dublin Institute of Technology

Coffee Break 4.00-4.30

Parallel Session 3A 4.30 - 6.30

Lecture Theater, Newman House

Epistemic Oppression

Emily McWilliams, Harvard 

Epistemic Advantages of the Epistemically Disadvantaged? What a difference the first-­?person perspectivemakes Nadja El Kassar, ETH Zurich

Argument as Combat

Jonny Blamey, London

Parallel Session 3B 4.30-6.30

Physics Theatre, Newman House

Knowledge in the Face of Silence

Pamela Foa, Brown University, USA

Acquaintance with Others’Perspectives, and Why Feminist Epistemology Needs an Account ofIt

Katherine Dormandy, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Stories Count: testimony, gender, and knowledge

Karyn L Freedman, University of Guelph, Ontario

Epistemic Authority: Women as co-producer of the meanings that shape our culture

Inmaculada Perdomo Reyes, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife

6.30-7.30  Conference Reception

 

7.30-9.30  Conference Dinner

Saturday November 28

 

Venue: Trinity College Dublin, The Irish School of Ecumenics

Parallel Session 4 A 9.300-11.00

The Idleness of Truth Relative to Shared Milieu (or how not to make sense of ideology critique)

Riin Kiov, University of Tartu, Estonia

The Relevance of Feminist Epistemology for Educational Research  

Valerija Vendramin, Pedagoški inštitut, Ljubljana

 

 

Paralle Session 4 B 9.300-11.00

Brain, Gender and Cognition. Feminist Critical Approach to Neuroscience

Aleksandra Derra, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

 

On the Politics of the Function Inference

Megan Hyska, University of Texas at Austin

Autism and the Gendered Ways of Knowing Hypothesis

Meredith Plug, University of Sheffield, UK

 

11.00-11.30 Coffee

Session 5 11.30-12.30

 

Epistemology’s Liberatory Futures

Phyllis Rooney, Oakland University, Michigan

Are Women’s Lives (Fully) Grievable? Gendered Framing and the Normalization of Sexual Violence

Dianna Taylor, John Carroll University, Ohio, USA

Lunch Break 12.30-200

Session 6 2.00 – 4.00

Objectivity and Situated Knowledge

Roxana Baiasu, Oxford University and Birmingham University

Feyerabend—Feminist Philosopher ofScience? Ian Kidd, Durham University, UK

Authoritative Beliefs, Stereotype Threat, and Alienation: a story of wronged rights

Ana Barandalla, University of Edinburgh

Must we be either Ignorant or Biased?: A solution to Gendler’s dilemma

Alessandra Tanesini, Cardiff University

3.30-4.00 Coffee

Plenary Session 2 and Close of Conference 4.00-6.00

 

Helen de Cruz , VU University Amsterdam

Gender and the public understanding of science: The underrepresentation of women as science communicators and its societal and epistemic consequences.

Linda Alcoff,  CUNY, New York

Decolonizing Epistemology

Dinner