El jueves 16 de abril, a las 12:30 tendr\u00e1 lugar, en formato exclusivamente online, una nueva sesi\u00f3n del seminario TeC-FiloLab. En esta ocasi\u00f3n contaremos con Maru Bibiloni, PhD en Filosof\u00eda por la Universidad de Aberdeen (Reino Unido). M\u00e1s abajo ten\u00e9is el t\u00edtulo y el resumen de su charla, as\u00ed como una breve nota sobre la trayectoria de Maru.<\/p>\n
Title: A Decolonial Criticism of Content-Based Theories of Slurs<\/p>\n
Abstract: The talk will consist of a brief presentation of the findings of my PhD dissertation.
\nA central challenge for content-based theories of slurs is how to conceptualise the evaluative content. Despite their differences, all the accounts agree on one thing: the descriptive meaning of slurs refers to a social group via a supposedly neutral, recognised description. My project questions this last assumption. I contend that viewing the alleged descriptive content of slurs as neutral leads these theories to adopt a ‘categorial separation’ (Lugones 2007) of social groups: the belief that human groups can be univocally singularised based on natural or fixed properties, and that these categories reflect the world in a straightforward, unproblematic way. These categories are, ultimately, fictional.
\nAdditionally, I argue that part of the slurs’ mechanics is to help establish their target subjects as if they bear such univocal properties. However, rather than uncovering such an establishment of social subjects as part of the meaning of slurs, TVS considers it a given aspect of social reality that slurs merely draw upon. I demonstrate that neglecting the normative imposition of categorial social groups leads to serious problems in how the tradition explains its subject matter and related phenomena.
\nIn contrast, I emphasise that such classifications are shaped by normative and epistemic structures that are historically entrenched. These classificatory schemes are largely exclusionary, and slurs users draw upon them in ways that reinforce social exclusions. A theory of slurs, I contend, must account for this normative dimension \u2013 otherwise, it risks complicity in sustaining the very systems of oppression it aims to explain.<\/p>\n
Bio: Mar\u00eda Bibiloni is Doctor in Philosophy by the University of Aberdeen (UK), and previously obtained their \u00abLicenciatura\u00bb in Philosophy at the National University of La Plata (Argentina). Their interests lie within decolonial thought, epistemology, and philosophy of language. Current projects engage with critical analysis of Anglo philosophy of language, as well as the importance of Argentinian philosopher Mar\u00eda Lugones to decolonial feminist thought in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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