The Woman of Reason: On the Re-appropriation of Rationality and the Enjoyment of Philosophy

Garavaso, Pieranna

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“…Regarding Plumwood's critique of classical logic, I offered an interpretation that I believe evades the critiques of Plumwood put forward by MacPherson (21), Russell (30) and Garavaso (9). As I argued, Plumwood's (23; 24; 25) view can be understood as saying that oppression is internal to classical logic only when this logic is applied in relevant contexts.…”

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“…But also, as Eckert and Donahue confess: "The length of time it took for any scholarly uptake at all makes us somewhat uncomfortable" (8, p. 434). Be that as it may, they offer quite convincing Plumwoodian answers to criticism put forward by MacPherson (21) and Garavaso (9). In the remainder of the paper, I instead want to underline the importance of Plumwood's anti-dualist philosophy to her feminist logic, as well as the fact that it is not only negation that can be problematic.…”

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Feminist Logic, Literally

Restović¹

2023

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I this paper, I discuss Plumwood’s feminist logic program. I argue both in favor of her general stance in feminist philosophy of logic and her more specific feminist critique of classical logic. Plumwood’s general position is in opposition with (I think it’s safe to say) the prevailing view in analytic philosophy about the relation between formal logic and feminist theory, according to which feminist theory cannot say anything about or against logic proper, since the issues of oppression are external to logic as a (formal) discipline. Connected to this externalism is a non-Plumwoodian view that “feminist logic” either doesn’t mean anything, or that it has some figurative meaning. Concerning Plumwood’s (I think it’s safe to say) not widely accepted feminist critique of classical logic, I propose an interpretation according to which classical logic is oppressive only when it’s used to describe a particular, “dualized” or “dualizable”, kind of notions. In accordance with this understanding, I consider five features of oppressive differentiations as proposed by Plumwood, arguing that two of them don’t concern negation, the feminist critique of which operator Plumwood is mostly (in)famous for.

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Feminist Logic, Literally

Restović¹

2023

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“…I agree with Gillian Russell that there does not appear to be any dualism between, say, odd and even numbers [Rus20]; but I think Plumwood would agree as well. 33 Similarly, I do not think it endangers Plumwood's view to point out that, formally speaking, ¬A and A could be switched by double negation laws [Gar16]. Of course they could, much like in some society women could be the dominant gender, and everything masculine come to be seen as a lack.…”

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The Liberation Argument for Inconsistent Mathematics

Mangraviti

2023

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Val Plumwood charged classical logic not only with the invalidity of some of its laws, but also with the support of systemic oppression through naturalization of the logical structure of dualisms. In this paper I show that the latter charge - unlike the former - can be carried over to classical mathematics, and I propose a new conception of inconsistent mathematics - queer incomaths - as a liberatory activity meant to undermine said naturalization.

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“…However she continued to be active in the Logic Group for a decade, publishing joint works with Sylvan on a range of topics in non-classical logic (alongside joint work on Meinongian metaphysics, forestry policy, moral and environmental philosophy). 8 The bulk of this work in logic focussed on relevant logics and this ground has been well traversed by commentators over the decades since.…”

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Val (Routley) Plumwood: Work in Logic

Hyde

2023

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Val Plumwood (nee Morrell) is best known in the logic community for her work on relevant logics published jointly with Richard Sylvan. Together, as `"Val and Richard Routley", they worked at the center of the Canberra Logic Group from 1971 to 1981 before they divorced and changed names, whereupon Val shifted her focus to issues in environmental philosophy. Her writing in that latter field drew so much attention, in fact, that most people familiar with her philosophical work know her solely for contributions there and are quite often surprised to hear of her work in non-classical logic. While her ``fame as an environmental philosopher overshadowed her work in logic, this work included significant contributions to the emerging study of non-classical logics and relevant logics in particular. Like Sylvan, she later turned to applications of this non-classical thinking in other areas, eventually in areas traditionally deemed beyond the reach of logical innovation.

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The Woman of Reason: On the Re-appropriation of Rationality and the Enjoyment of Philosophy

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Feminist Logic, Literally

Feminist Logic, Literally

The Liberation Argument for Inconsistent Mathematics

Val (Routley) Plumwood: Work in Logic

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