Dear all, The next philosophy postgraduate colloquium will be held on Monday May 12 @ 2pm in the Muniment room (Quadrangle building, University of Sydney).
Talk details: Speaker: Louise Richardson-Self *What's so bad about sexual objectification?* In this paper I critique Martha Nussbaum's influential argument that 'objectification' should be understood as a cluster concept; one that is not necessarily morally problematic. Nussbaum maintains, along Kantian lines, that instrumentalisation is the most morally exigent component of objectification, but that not all instrumentalisation is problematic. I argue instead that denial of subjectivity in conjunction with instrumentalisation are both necessary and sufficient for objectification, and that objectification is always morally impermissible. I argue further that there are good pragmatic reasons for adopting this definition, which Nussbaum's theory neglects. All most welcome!!
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