Philosophy
Brian Sholis and
Philosophy
To have a "standpoint" means to be able to not only experience the harms of a social or political system, but to recognize the ways in which that system interacts with one's identity. While "lived experience" can be personal and reasonably unreflective, standpoint epistemology is a position of knowing "earned" through intentional analysis.
The way we think about thought is political. This much was evident at the birth of the modern study of the mind, when Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia wrote to René Descartes in 1643 to question his account of cognition. Her self-deprecation will be familiar to any woman who’s dared to dispute with an eminence, and knows that the best way to begin is... See more
Sally Davies • Feminists never bought the idea of a mind set free from its body | Aeon Essays
The more I think about it, the more I think this is why so many of us, myself included, are attracted to data-based optimization. We’re painfully aware that we are vulnerable, fallible creatures. Our shame about that is reflected in Western religious traditions: The Bible tells us that upon first creating the world, God “saw that it was good,” but... See more
You can’t optimize your way to being a good person
The concept of subjectivity is derived from the philosophy
of Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Delueze & Guattari, Butler,
and others. Two related concepts are at the core of this the-
ory: the notion of subject positions, which are social roles
that people are thrust into, and subjectivity, which is the felt
experience and creative agency of individuals... See more
of Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Delueze & Guattari, Butler,
and others. Two related concepts are at the core of this the-
ory: the notion of subject positions, which are social roles
that people are thrust into, and subjectivity, which is the felt
experience and creative agency of individuals... See more