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Weekly Colloquium
SUBJECT: This week鈥檚 colloquium
Here are the details about this week鈥檚 Philosophy Colloquium. The colloquium will be held from 3:00-5:00 pm (Atlantic time) on Friday, April 4 both in person, in Room 1130 of the Marion McCain Arts and Social Science Building, and online via zoom (details below).
Speaker: Letitia Meynell (Dalhousie)
Title: An Invitation to Transformation: The Importance of Cate Hundleby鈥檚 Work to Contemporary Scientific Epistemology
Abstract: In this paper I examine how Cate Hundleby鈥檚 work in feminist standpoint epistemology and feminist argumentation theory might shore up Helen Longino鈥檚 contextual empiricism and offer suggestions as to its effective application. I show how, despite the complexities of intersectionality and shifting power relations, feminist standpoint theory offers useful suggestions for scientific practice, particularly the inclusion of marginalized voices throughout the scientific process. I then show how feminist argumentation theory provides insight into the challenges of meeting the 鈥榯empered equality of epistemic authority鈥� that Longino requires as well as approaches to argumentation that might better serve this goal.
Zoom:
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Topic: Colloquium
Time: April 4, 2025 03:00 PM Atlantic Time (Canada)
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AFFILIATED GROUPS
- Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
- Dalhousie Women Around Philosophy
- Evolutionary Studies Group
- Animal Studies Group
- The Canadian Philosophical Association - see the CPA's聽
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DEPARTMENT KUDOS
- Congratulations聽to Tom Vinci on the eve of publication of his chapter 鈥楽ensibility and Intellect in Descartes鈥�, to appear in the forthcoming book聽The Cartesian Mind,听Edited By聽,听,听聽(Routledge, 2026). Tom鈥檚 chapter marks 51 years since his first publication in 1971 in the聽Journal of the History of Philosophy!
- Congratulations聽to Dr. Erik Nelson (who defended his dissertation last summer) on winning a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship under the supervision of聽 Dr. Kristin Andrews at York University.
- Congratulations聽to Erik Nelson who defended his PhD dissertation,听The Nonlinguistic Mind: Nonlinguistic Concepts, Normativity and Animal Cognition, this June.
- Congratulations聽to our PhD student, Clarisse Paron, for being awarded the聽聽for presenting on of the best two student papers at the Annual Meeting, June 2024. The title of her paper is 鈥淎re the New American Pediatric Obesity Guidelines Eugenic? Eugenic Logics and the Medicalization and Pathologization of Children鈥檚 Bodies.鈥�
- Congratulations聽to our PhD students, Lara Millman and Clarisse Paron, for being awarded Dalhousie鈥檚 聽President鈥檚 Graduate/Undergraduate Student Teaching Award聽(2 of 3 available university-wide awards!)
- Congratulations聽to Dr. Travis LaCroix, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Durham University, starting in the fall of 2024.
- Congratulations to Dr. Travis LaCroix, who has been award an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council! Travis鈥檚 research project is entitled 鈥淧hilosophy on the Spectrum: The Philosophy of Autism and Autistic Philosophy.鈥�
- Tyler Hildebrand鈥檚 paper 鈥淚nductive Reasoning Involving Social Kinds鈥� (with Barrett Emerick) has been published in the聽Journal of the American Philosophical Association.聽
- Congratulations聽to Kayla Beals, who is the 2024 recipient of the F. Hilton Page Memorial Prize, awarded to a graduating student whose thesis is judged to be outstanding.聽
- Congratulations聽to George Arnott, who is the 2024 recipient of the Roland Puccetti Memorial Award for the best essay submitted by a student in a 3000- or 4000-level class. George鈥檚 essay is entitled "The Virtuous Cohort" Habituation and Character-Friendship as Rational Motivators for Aristotelian Courage.