Talk: Sara Ayhan (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Title:

Queer feminist logic & contradictory logics: A symbiotic relationship

Abstract:

In this talk I want to investigate possible applications of queer feminist views on (philosophy of) logic with respect to contradictory logics and especially bilateral representations of these. Thereby I want to show that, on the one hand, the formal set-up of contradictory logics makes them well-suited from the perspectives of feminist logic and, on the other hand, that queer feminist theories provide a relevant, and so far undeveloped, conceptual motivation for contradictory logics. Thus, applying contradictory logics to reasoning about queer feminist issues may prove fruitful both as a ‘real-life’ motivation for these rather marginalized logical systems and as a formal basis for a philosophical field that is still characterized by a distrust of formalism.