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Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground

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Haslanger, Sally
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Introduction: Are sagging pants cool? Are cows food? Are women more submissive than men? Are blacks more criminal than whites? Taking the social world at face value, many people would be tempted to answer these questions in the affirmative. And if challenged, they can point to facts that support their answers. But there is something wrong about the affirmative answers. I deny that sagging pants are cool, cows are food, women are more submissive than men, and blacks are more criminal than whites. And moreover, I maintain that there is an objective basis for denying these claims even though the facts seem to support the face value affirmative response. But how can that be? We all know that male urban youth can barely walk with their pants belted around their thighs, that beef is a staple in the American diet, that blacks are incarcerated in the United States at a much higher rate than any other race, and that women defer to men in both work and family life. How could a denial of these facts be justified?
Date issued
2011
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71766
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Journal
Feminist Metaphysics
Publisher
Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
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Haslanger, Sally. "Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground." Chapter 11 in: Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self, Editor, Charlotte Witt. Dordrecht: Springer, 2011. (Feminist Philosophy Collection), p. 179-208.
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978-90-481-3782-4
978-90-481-3783-1

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