Social Ontology and Social Justice

This conference will deal with issues that connect social justice to social ontology. 

• Race and reparations 
• Gender and transfeminist politics 
• Medicalisation and social marginalisation
• Money and economic policy
• Institutions and political philosophy
• Group agency and collective responsibility
• Conceptual engineering
• Culture, race, and philosophy of science
• Language and language rights

The schedule is as follows:  

Friday, May 5th:                

• 10am: Li Zhixuan, University of Hong Kong: Intrapersonal Intelligibility in Hermeneutical Injustice—A Phenomenological Perspective
• 11am: Dinez Clarke, York University: Slurs and Slurring: Beyond Prohibition
• 1pm: Nigel Freno, McMaster University: Political Graffiti in Action: An Application of Kukla’s and Lance’s Pragmatic Topology of Speech Acts to Political Graffiti
• 2pm: David Liebesman, University of Calgary

Saturday, May 6th:

• 10am: James Murphy, Indiana University Bloomington: Do We Need a Metaphysics of Gender? 
• 11am: Bru Perron, Concordia University: Genderqueerity: A Case for Non-Substantivity
• 1pm: Eric Wilkinson, McGill University: The Regress of Separatism
• 2pm: Casey Johnson, University of Idaho

Contact Larry Blomme at [email protected] with any questions.