You are warmly invited to the first MQ Philosophy Work in Progress (WIP) seminar for Semester 2 which will be given by *Dominic Murphy (University of Sydney)*
The details are as follows: Date: Tuesday 4th of August Time: 13:00-14:00 Room: 17WW 113 Zoom Link: https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/86932261160?pwd=k5qDEdWLQa9hfux1D3bhduEaaNt3U5.1 <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmacquarie.zoom.us%2Fj%2F86932261160%3Fpwd%3Dk5qDEdWLQa9hfux1D3bhduEaaNt3U5.1&data=05%7C02%7Canne.janssen%40students.mq.edu.au%7C47fec50ac5ca44b810b908dee857d9e7%7C82c514c1a7174087be06d40d2070ad52%7C0%7C0%7C639203661230819655%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=qEfrcdUcOvUDCBgpgkD2RhnDLbWCRIXv0NqxSZhsgpg%3D&reserved=0> *Title: *Social construction, social causation and social meaning *Abstract:* Sally Haslanger (1995) influentially distinguished between causal and constitutive varieties of social construction. According to her, something is socially causally constructed if social factors play a causal role in bringing it into existence or, to some substantial extent, in its being the way it is. But setting things issue up like this makes pretty much everything in recorded history into a social construction because almost everything has some social causes. I think this makes the idea of social construction uninformative. I will consider some ways of differentiating between social construction proper and the effects of social processes considered more generically. I will also make a case for recognising a further category: social meaning, seen as the interpretation by a culture of existing phenomena regardless of their causes. So just as a natural phenomenon can be open to interpretation, something can be both a social construction and also open to further interpretation and contest*.* Further information about the seminar series including details on future talks can be found at the seminar webpage: https://mqphilosophy.github.io/seminars <https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmqphilosophy.github.io%2Fseminars%2F&data=05%7C02%7Canne.janssen%40students.mq.edu.au%7C47fec50ac5ca44b810b908dee857d9e7%7C82c514c1a7174087be06d40d2070ad52%7C0%7C0%7C639203661230871064%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=35NwR9LGUfWBFxbUQf%2BBnceIIwCMWX01j3fE3J9ZQ%2BM%3D&reserved=0> We look forward to seeing you there. *Dr Emily Hughes *(she/her) ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow in Philosophy School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts Michael Kirby Building, 17 Wally's Walk Level 2, Room 233 Macquarie University – Wallumattagal Campus, Dharug Country NSW 2109 Australia E: [email protected] W: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/emily-hughes *I acknowledge that Macquarie University stands on the land of the Dharug Nation, land that was never ceded. I pay my respects to the Dharug people, the Wallumattagal clan, and their Elders past and present. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.* --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil
