The Dep artment of Philosophy is pleased to invite you to our 2022/2023 colloquium series.
Join us online on October 21\, 2022 to listen to our guest sp eaker Dr. Chelsea Rosenthal\, Assistant Professor of Philosophy from Simon Fraser University\, discussing “Intimate Concepts.”
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We use concepts\, like city or money\, to help us understand and talk about the world. But some concepts also help us understand ourse lves and navigate our intimate relationships – concepts like lesbian\, havi ng sex\, genderqueer\, and love. These concepts raise distinctive challeng es. On the one hand\, we want to understand our own\, widely varied\, pers onal experiences\; on the other hand\, we want to be able to communicate wi th the wider world. The concepts that will do the best job at the first ta sk – improved self-understanding – likely won’t be the same person to perso n. The conceptual frameworks that may be illuminating for one person may j ust be stifling or confusing for another\, and maximally inclusive\, genera l concepts might not have enough content to do the needed hermeneutical wor k. But piles of very specific\, bespoke concepts create challenges for the second task – communicating with the wider world. For that purpose\, the general concepts can have advantages – effective concepts might seem to be those that are widely understood in fairly uniform ways. So\, we ask intim ate concepts to perform two very different jobs – and the requirements of t hose jobs suggest very different ways of developing our conceptual framewor ks. I explore this dilemma\, look at what it can tell us about when to tru st people’s claims about themselves\, and suggest some ways forward.
Dr. Chelsea Rosenthal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University. Before joining the faculty at Simon Fraser\, Dr. Rosenthal was an Assistant Professor/Fac ulty Fellow in the Center for Bioethics at New York University and did her doctoral work in NYU's Philosophy Department. She also holds a J.D. from th e Law School there. Dr. Rosenthal's research focuses on ethics\, philosoph y of law\, and political philosophy\, with current projects on moral uncert ainty\, privacy and content moderation on social media\, and the ethical re sponsibilities of lawyers.
(For more details on her research\, see he r research page here.)
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