UPsalon Reading Cycle SoSe 21

The ‘UPSalon Reading Cycle’ continues! UPsalon aims to create a space in Vienna where underrepresented philosophers - such as women, gender-nonconforming groups, ethnic minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged people and people disabled by society can connect on a regular basis.

With our reading cycle we want to provide a space to read and discuss philosophical works dealing with gender, race, sexuality, disability, oppression and resistance to oppression. The latter topic will be at the center of this semester’s reading cycle! The Vienna Doctoral School in Philosophy will be hosting a summer school in September 2021, on the
theme of Resistance (announcements about the summer school will be made within the next few weeks.) The readings for this semester’s UPSalon reading cycle have been chosen as background reading for the summer
school. This will feature modules on ‘resistance and speech act theory’, ‘the epistemology of resistance’, ‘resistance and conceptual engineering’, ‘resistance and law’, and ‘resistance and political discourse’.

When: Thursday every other week 11 – 12:30 am
Where: Zoom (links will be provided)

1. RESISTANCE AND SPEECH ACT THEORY

  • 18/3: Langton (1993) ‘Speech acts and unspeakable acts,’ Philosophy and Public Affairs 22 (4): 293-330
  • 8/4: Langton (2018) ‘Blocking as counter-speech’ in Fogal, Harris & Moss (eds), New Work on Speech Acts. Oxford: OUP.


2. THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF RESISTANCE

  • 22/4: Medina (2013) ‘Resistance as epistemic vice and as epistemic virtue’, Chapter 2 in The Epistemology of Resistance. Oxford: OUP
  • 6/5: Medina (2013), ‘Meta-lucidity, “Epistemic Heroes,” and the Everyday Struggle Toward Epistemic Justice’, Chapter 5 in The Epistemology of Resistance. Oxford: OUP.


3. CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING AND RESISTANCE

  • 20/5: Haslanger, S (2000), ‘Gender and race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them to Be?’ Nôus 34 (1): 31-55.
  • 3/6: Diaz Leon, E (2020), ‘Descriptive vs. Ameliorative Projects: The Role of Normative Considerations,’ in Burgess, Cappelen & Plunkett (eds), Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics. Oxford: OUP.


4. RESISTANCE AND LAW

  • 17/6: Holzleithner, E (2018), ‘Subversion from within: opposition to gender equality in the Court of Justice of the European Union’ in Verloo (ed.), Varieties of Opposition to Gender Equality in Europe. New York: Routledge.


5. RESISTANCE AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE

  • 1/7: Stanley, J. (2015), ‘Language as a mechanism of control’, Chapter 4 in How Propaganda Works. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.