Sally Haslanger, professor of philosophy and women’s and gender studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss “Agency, Power, and Social Justice” from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Nebraska Union, Heritage Room. The lecture is free and open to the public.
In the talk, Haslanger will cover the shift in the perception of power from a dyadic relation, where A has power over B, to a part of the social field in which all social agents have a part. The discussion develops this alternative account of power and considers how it might be employed in understanding unjust systems such as White supremacy, capitalism and male domination, and how agents, together, can resist injustice.
Haslanger works with issues of social justice, contemporary epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. Her work, collected in “Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique,” received the Joseph B. Gittler award for outstanding work in philosophy of the social sciences.
For more information, send email to Ed Becker at ebecker1@unl.edu.
