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> I am currently exploring feminist critiques of logic Can someone explain this to me? Taken at face value that seems like a ridiculous statement, but I'm ass
by clarkm 13y ago
> I am currently exploring feminist critiques of logic
Can someone explain this to me?
Taken at face value that seems like a ridiculous statement, but I'm assuming there's a lot of context I don't know about. I tried googling for it, but only found stuff like this: http://www.indiana.edu/~koertge/rfemlog.html http://www.indiana.edu/~koertge/rfemlog.html which didn't clarify thigns at all.
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The author clarifies themselves in a comment:
> What is a feminist logic is a question I’ve spent the past six months thinking about and researching. There are not a lot of women in philosophy, and there are definitely not a lot of feminist philosophers, so I don’t have a good answer for this question. There is great scholarship talking about weather a feminist logic can build off of formal logic or if it has to reject the laws of identity and create something entirely new. There are solid arguments for both camps, personally I’m swayed by the constructive theories that would build onto formal logic through a feminist lens. There exist logics that handle contradiction as part of the system, namely paraconsistent logic. I think this type of logic represents the feminist idea that something can be and not be without being a contradiction, that is a system where the following statement is not explosive: (p && ¬p) == 1.
- d_theorist 13y agoDoes that really clarify anything? I can't say I have any clearer idea of what the feminist critique of logic is after reading that. What does paraconsistent logic have to do with feminism?
- fab13n 13y agoThat's my core problem with her approach: she seems to takes for granted that having limited formal reasoning skills is a defining feature of being female, and therefore must be promoted by feminism. It is to my understanding of feminism what Stephen Colbert is to Republicanism.
- j2kun 13y ago> having limited formal reasoning skills is a defining feature of being female Where does she say this, even implicitly? Questioning the axioms of logical theories is just as much practiced by men, and has a large historical precedent.
- aeorgnoieang 13y agoIf questioning the axioms of logical theories is practiced by men, does that mean that those men are necessarily 'feminist'? Does the fact (or not) that para-consistent logics were first discovered and studied by men exclude them from being a candidate for 'feminist' logic? Would you answer differently depending on the politics of the mathematicians? Can you understand why this seems ridiculous?