Society for Analytical Feminism at the APA in NYC

If you are in New York for the Eastern APA please join the Society for Analytical Feminism for the following session:


Monday, Dec. 28, 9:00-11:00 AM
Chair, Sharon Crasnow
Feminism and Contemporary Popular Culture
Laurie Shrage, "XX Radio - Adding Feminist Voices to the FM Dial"
Nancy Bauer, "Hang-ups about Hook-ups: Feminist Philosophy and the New Generation Gap"
Naomi Zack, "White-Privilege Appropriations of Feminism: Carrie Bradshaw, Bella Swan, and Sarah Palin"
Kelly Oliver, "Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down: Images of Pregnancy in Recent Hollywood Films"

Society for Analytical Feminism
Feminist Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition

CALL FOR PAPERS
SAF Session at the Central Division APA
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
February 17 - 20, 2010

The Society for Analytical Feminism invites submissions for a session at the 2010 Central Division APA meetings to be held in Chicago in February 17-20, 2010.


The Society seeks papers that examine feminist issues by methods broadly construed as analytic, or discuss the use of analytic philosophical methods as applied to feminist issues. Reading time should be about 20 minutes. Authors should submit either (1) a paper, or (2) an extended abstract, as detailed as possible (up to 1000 words) accompanied by a bibliography. Please delete all self-identifying references from your submission to ensure anonymity. Submit papers as a word attachment to sharon.crasnow@rcc.edu.


The deadline for submissions is August 15, 2009.


Graduate students or underfunded professionals whose papers are accepted will be eligible for the Society’s $250 Travel Stipend. Please indicate on a separate page (or in your covering letter) if you fall into one of these categories.

The Society for Analytical Feminism

The Society for Analytical Feminism provides a forum where issues concerning analytical feminism may be openly discussed and examined. Its purpose is to promote the study of issues in feminism by methods broadly construed as analytic, to examine the use of analytic methods as applied to feminist issues, and to provide a means by which those interested in Analytical Feminism may meet and exchange ideas. The Society meets yearly at the Central Division meetings of the APA, and frequently organizes sessions for the Eastern Division and Pacific Divisions as well. Information can be found on our website:

http://faculty.rcc.edu/crasnow/SAF.html

CFP: Society for Analytical Feminism-Central APA

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Society for Analytical Feminism
Feminist Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition

CALL FOR PAPERS
SAF Session at the Central Division APA Meetings
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
February 18-21, 2009
NOTE DATE CHANGE!

The Society for Analytical Feminism invites submissions for a session at the 2008 Central Division APA meetings to be held in Chicago in February 18-21, 2009. Please note that this is a different date than you may be used to!

The Society seeks papers that examine feminist issues by methods broadly construed as analytic, or discuss the use of analytic philosophical methods as applied to feminist issues. Reading time should be about 20 minutes. Authors should submit either (1) a paper, or (2) an extended abstract, as detailed as possible (up to 1000 words) accompanied by a bibliography. Please delete all self-identifying references from your submission to ensure anonymity. You may submit papers as a word attachment to sharon.crasnow@rcc.edu (preferred) or mail four copies to:

Sharon Crasnow
925 Archer Street
San Diego, CA 92109

The deadline for submissions is August 15, 2008.

Graduate students or underfunded professionals whose papers are accepted will be eligible for the Society’s $250 Travel Stipend. Please indicate on a separate page (or in your covering letter) if you fall into one of these categories.

The Society for Analytical Feminism

The Society for Analytical Feminism provides a forum where issues concerning analytical feminism may be openly discussed and examined. Its purpose is to promote the study of issues in feminism by methods broadly construed as analytic, to examine the use of analytic methods as applied to feminist issues, and to provide a means by which those interested in Analytical Feminism may meet and exchange ideas. The Society meets yearly at the Central Division meetings of the APA, and frequently organizes sessions for the Eastern Division and Pacific Divisions as well. Information can be found on our website:

http://faculty.rcc.edu/crasnow/SAF.html

Membership in the Society is open to all who are interested in and concerned with issues in Analytical Feminism. Annual dues are $15 for regularly employed members, $5 for students, unemployed, underemployed and retired members. To join, send your check for the appropriate amount payable to the Society for Analytical Feminism to Sharon Crasnow at the address above.

Society for Analytical Feminism conference

Forgive my very late reporting, but even though it was almost a month ago already, I still think that it is worth saying something about the wonderful Society for Analytical Feminism conference in Kentucky at the beginning of April. You can see the program on this blog or at the SAF website. I came away with the strong impression that feminist philosophy is indeed very healthy, thriving, in fact. Now, I am bound to be somewhat biased on this topic, since I was one of the organizers of the conference (as well as being a presenter), but I do not think that my bias has compromised my judgment too badly. Time will tell.

Kentucky was lovely and green, if wet. Sorry that the picture doesn't do Kentucky more justice, but it did rain rather viciously on the first day and most of that night. In my defense, however, the picture does have very green grass and horses. Still this has nothing to do with philosophy, so let me get to the interesting stuff.

The theme of the conference was Analytical Feminism's Contributions to Traditional Philosophy. The papers that were presented over the greater part of three days clearly were representative of this idea, though it was not the explicit theme of most (with the exception of Ann Cudd's closing plenary presentation). There were papers in epistemology (including philosophy of science), metaphysics (questions of gender and identity primarily), and values (ethics and social an political philosophy), all traditional areas of philosophy, but with feminist concerns at the forefront in two ways. First, the papers were embedded not just in the analytic tradition but in the feminist variant of that tradition that is now maturing. The papers reflect a conversation within the philosophical tradition as a whole but especially with feminists working in that tradition. Second, the papers point towards the contributions (as the conference title suggests) that feminist discourse can provide in the growth of the analytical tradition as a whole.

Here is an example. When Libby Potter discusses "Hybrid Values", she begins with but refines a notion of social practices that she finds in Alisdair McIntyre's work. A discussion of propositions and propositional attitudes provides a bridge to the epistemic and the work of Elizabeth Anderson and other feminists thinkers offers the idea that there are hybrid values (hybrids between epistemic and social or moral values) that we can see in practices such as feminist consciousness raising. So she engages with the tradition but at the same time offers a resource for addressing a current concern in epistemology and philosophy of science. Though using her notion of hybrid values specifically in relation to feminist work, the idea that there are practices of knowledge production that incorporate values that are at the same time epistemic and social/moral provides another way of thinking about the vexing questions that have troubled not only feminist but most epistemologists who take seriously the idea that knowledge is social.

Another example is Kristina Rolin's "Defending Critical Contextual Empiricism" in which she responds to objections raised to Longino's contextual empiricism. What is striking about this paper is that it is a conversation within feminist epistemology itself, but again about issues that are not just feminist issues. The concerns about relativism that are raised run throughout the literature in philosophy of science at least since Kuhn. The idea that contextualist epistemology might be compatible with Longino's contextualism is worth exploring. In each of these cases, the papers are embedded in the analytic tradition both methodologically and in terms of content.

I mention these papers in epistemology because it is sometimes harder to acknowledge feminist contributions in epistemology than it is to see that there are such contributions in ethics, social and political philosophy, and metaphysics (though the recognized contributions in metaphysics might be thought of as more circumscribed than in the other areas and mostly confined to issues of gender and identity). As Ann Cudd pointed out in her talk "Resistance is Not Futile: Analytical Feminism's Contributions to Political Philosophy", the role and contribution of feminist thought is more readily acknowledged in political philosophy and ethics than in other areas.

The philosophical problems that feminists are dealing with are not problems solely for feminism but they are often problems that surface in feminism because they are philosophical problems and grappling with them in relation to feminism can produce insights that are applicable elsewhere. If one is a feminist, this may well be where you want to do your grappling.

Look for more from this conference. Some of these papers are already committed for publication in a variety of venues, but Anita Superson and I hope we will soon have an anthology that will display the breadth and depth of the current work in analytical feminism. My apologies to all the authors of the papers that I have not specifically mentioned. The papers were uniformly of high quality and there were so many good ideas!

Society for Analytical Feminism 2nd Conference Program

The Society for Analytical Feminism 2nd Conference program is not available and is posted below. The conference will be at the Radisson Hotel in Lexington, KY from April 4-6, 2008. Registration forms and the a downloadable version of the program are available at the Society for Analytical Feminism website.

Society for Analytical Feminism
2nd Conference
Analytical Feminist Contributions
to Traditional Philosophy
Sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences
and the Office of the Vice President
University of Kentucky

Friday, April 4th
12-1 pm Registration (at desk near hotel meeting rooms)

1 pm: First Session

A. Breckinridge Room
Chair: Betsy Hopkins (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
"Standards of Rationality and Intrinsic Worth"

B. Clay Room
Chair: Libby Potter (Mills College)
Speaker: Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University)
"Toward a Feminist Metaepistemology"

2 pm: First Plenary Session
Daniel Boone Room

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Ann Garry (California State, Los Angeles)
"Implications of Intersectionality"

3 pm: Second Session

A. Breckinridge Room
Chair: Christa Hodapp (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Carol Hay (Bryn Mawr College)
"Rationality and Oppression"

B. Clay Room
Chair: Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College)
Speaker: Libby Potter (Mills College)
"Hybrid Values"

C. Daniel Boone Room
Chair: Jen McWeeny (John Carroll University)
Speaker: Nancy McHugh (Wittenberg University)
"More than Skin Deep: Situated Communities and the Case of Agent Orange in Viet Nam"

4-4:30 pm: Coffee & snacks/registration (hallway outside meeting rooms)

4:30 pm: Third Session

A. Breckinridge Room
Chair: Carol Hay (Bryn Mawr College)
Speaker: Anne Barnhill (New York University)
"Feminist Sexual Virtue and Feminist Sexual Vice"

B. Clay Room
Chair: Janine Jones (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Speaker: Jen McWeeny (John Carroll University)
"The Epistemology of Margaret Cavendish: A Seventeenth Century Theory of Embodied Cognition"

C. Daniel Boone Room
Chair: Pieranna Garavaso (University of Minnesota, Morris)
Speaker: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College, Norco) "Resources for Feminist Epistemology: Models, Representation, and Objectivity"

5:30 pm: Second Plenary Session
Daniel Boone Room

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Louise Antony (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"Democracy is Not an Epistemic Value"

7:30: Welcome Dinner at Radisson; pre-registration required; cash bar; Daniel Boone Room

Saturday, April 5th

8-9 am Registration (at desk outside meeting rooms)

9 am: Third Plenary Session
Daniel Boone Room

Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College, Norco)
Plenary Speaker: Alison Wylie (University of Washington)
"What Knowers Know Well: Standpoint Theory and the Foundation of Gender Archaeology"

10 am: Fifth Session

A. Breckinridge Room
Chair: Helga Varden (University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana)
Speaker: Andrea Westlund (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) "Rethinking Relational Autonomy"

B. Clay Room
Chair: Phyllis Rooney (Oakland University)
Speaker: Kristina Rolin ( Helsinki School of Economics)
"Defending Critical Contextual Empiricism"

C. Daniel Boone Room
Chair: Lisa McLeod (Guilford College)
Speaker: Nancy Daukas (Guilford College)
"Why Feminist Epistemology Needs More Virtue"

11 am: Fourth Plenary Session
Daniel Boone Room

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Julia Driver (Dartmouth College)
"Feminism and Moral Realism"

12 -- 1:30 pm: Lunch (local downtown restaurants)

1:30 pm: Fifth Plenary Session
Daniel Boone Room

Chair: Clare Batty (University of Kentucky)
Plenary Speaker: Sally Haslanger (MIT)
"Social Categories, Social Structure, and Ideology Critique"

2:30 pm: Sixth Session

A. Breckinridge Room
Chair: Anne Barnhill (NYU)
Speaker: Helga Varden (University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana)
"The Injustice of Anti-Abortion and Anti-Homosexuality Laws"

B. Clay Room
Chair: Kristina Rolin (Helsinki School of Economics)
Speaker: Heidi Grasswick (Middlebury College)
"Sharing Knowledge: Querying the Norms"

C. Daniel Boone Room
Chair: Alison Wolf (Simpson College)
Speaker: Pieranna Garavaso (University of Minnesota, Morris) "Personal Identity and Gender Identity"

3:30-4 pm: Coffee; Registration (hallway outside meeting rooms)

4 pm: Sixth Plenary Session
Daniel Boone Room

Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College, Norco)
Plenary Speaker: Miriam Solomon (Temple University)
"Discerning Feminist Empiricism"

5 pm: Seventh Plenary Session
Daniel Boone Room

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Robin Dillon (Lehigh University)
"A Feminist View of Vice and Virtue"

6 pm: Dinner on your own; local downtown restaurants

Sunday, April 6th

9 am: Eighth Plenary Session
Daniel Boone Room

Chair: Sharon Crasnow (Riverside Community College, Norco)
Plenary Speaker: Charlotte Witt (University of New Hampshire)
"Humans, Persons and Social Individuals"

10 am: Ninth Plenary Session
Daniel Boone Room

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Ann Cudd (University of Kansas)
"Resistance is Not Futile: Analytical Feminism’s Contributions to Political Philosophy"

11 - 12:30: Lunch on your own; local downtown restaurants

12:30 pm: Tenth Plenary Session
Daniel Boone Room

Chair: Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, University of Michigan)
Plenary Speaker: Mariam Thalos (University of Utah)
"The Self-construction of the Self"

1:30 pm: Seventh Session

A. Breckinridge Room
Chair: Elisia Taylor (University of Kentucky)
Speaker: Marilyn Friedman (Washington University)
"Female Terrorists: Gender and Meaning"

B. Clay Room
Chair: Andrea Westlund (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Speaker: Sonya Charles (Cleveland State University)
"Stoljar's Challenge: How Should Feminist Autonomy Theorists Respond to the Problem of Oppression?"