Propos sur la notion de "culture du viol" (D. Robichaud)

Sur les ondes | On air

David Robichaud

(Université d'Ottawa)

Propos sur la notion de "culture du viol"

À l'émission Les Malins 

Samedi, le 29 octobre 2016, à 9h43 (écouter en rediffusion)

Ici Radio-Canada Première Ottawa-Gatineau (90,7 fm)

Où est passée l'empathie? (D. Robichaud)

Sur les ondes | On air

David Robichaud

(Université d'Ottawa)

Où est passée l'empathie?

À l'émission Les Malins 

Samedi, le 22 octobre 2016, à 9h51 (écouter en rediffusion)

Ici Radio-Canada Première Ottawa-Gatineau (90,7 fm)

Les Métaphysiques des Lumieres (P. Girard, C. Leduc, M. Rioux-Beaulne)

Livre | Book

(sous la direction de)

Pierre Girard

(Université de Montréal)

Christian Leduc

(Université de Montréal)
Mitia Rioux-Beaulne

(Université d'Ottawa)

Les Métaphysiques des Lumières

Classiques Garnier
Octobre 2016

Voir le résumé | See the abstract

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Carving the Mind at its Homologous Joints (V. Bergeron)

Why Feminism Entails (Real) Panpsychism (J. McWeeny)

Conférence | Talk

Jennifer McWeeny

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Why Feminism Entails (Real) Panpsychism

Feminist philosophers have long argued that mind-body dualism facilitates oppression because it entails a hierarchical valuation of the mental over the bodily that respectively maps onto differential valuations of men and women, among other pairings. Recently, Galen Strawson and David Chalmers have championed the metaphysical position of panpsychism in virtue of its capacity to overcome the mind-body problem without positing emergence or generating conceivability problems in regard to the nature of mind. If Strawson and Chalmers are correct that panpsychism is the most viable alternative to Cartesian dualism—and I believe that they are—then the following question arises out of the intersection of feminist philosophy and philosophy of mind: Must feminism be grounded in a panpsychic metaphysics? This chapter develops an argument for the affirmative position. However, not just any kind of panpsychism is consistent with feminism. Unlike the versions of panpsychism advocated by Strawson and Chalmers, feminist panpsychism must be a “real panpsychism” that attributes minds all the way down to rocks, plants, inanimate objects, and so on. Not only is real panpsychism the only panpsychism capable of neutralizing the hierarchies that justify oppression, but it is also the only approach that can genuinely avoid emergence, thus making it one of the most desirable options in the philosophy of mind.

Thursday, October 20th, 2016

7:30pm

Dominican University College

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Reframing Chronic Poverty and its Alleviation (M. Deveaux)

Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement (D. B. Wong)

Conférence | Talk

David B. Wong

(Duke University)

Soup, Harmony, and Disagreement

Is the ancient Confucian ideal of he 和, “harmony,” a viable ideal in pluralistic societies composed of people who subscribe to different ideals of the good life, and different comprehensive moral and religious beliefs?  Is harmony compatible with accepting, even encouraging, difference, and the freedom to think differently, to act against the social and moral expectations of others, and to aspire to different ways of life?  In my talk I identify the different dimensions of harmony, the relations between them, and their relations to difference and the freedom to express one’s differences with others.  I argue that there are ways of conceiving harmony, difference, and freedom and of trying to realize them that acknowledges the tensions between them, but also their relations of mutual support. I rely on some central passages in early texts that distinguish harmony from agreement and conformity with others, and which instead suggest that harmony must accommodate and make use of difference.  I discuss the Confucian uses of ritual to foster a type of harmony that can at the same time accommodate difference, and apply these ideas to the current situation in the U.S., where fear of difference threatens to dissolve into antagonism and political paralysis.

Friday, October 14th, 2016

3:00pm

University of Ottawa

Desmarais Hall

Room 8161

Démocratie et déficit de rationalité (D. Robichaud)

Sur les ondes | On air

David Robichaud

(Université d'Ottawa)

Démocratie et déficit de rationalité

À l'émission Les Malins 

Samedi, le 08 octobre 2016, entre 9h45 (écouter en rediffusion)

Ici Radio-Canada Première Ottawa-Gatineau (90,7 fm)

La Philosophie et son histoire | Philosophy and its history