The Phil/Rels Conversations series hosts Dr. Frances Bottenberg. Strong emotions can animate us to change our tone of voice, move and gesture more or less dynamically, and alter our general bearing in a physical space. Others read these visual cues as a guide to our state of mind and even as a persuasive supplement to the claims we are uttering. But what standards are used in that interpretive process? And are feminist philosophers correct in thinking that women and other marginalized groups are more likely to fall prey to epistemic injustice, when speaking or acting with strong emotion? We will explore these questions and their implications together.
Monday, Feb. 21, 2022
5:00 p.m. on Zoom
Frances Bottenberg (Ph.D. Stony Brook University) is a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She teaches courses in phenomenology and existentialism, aesthetics, philosophy of aging, and philosophy of education. Her research examines the nature and meaning of mind and its bearing on moral categories such as personhood and sentience, particularly in reference to living with dementia. Since 2018, she has co-directed the Liberal Arts Advantage, a career preparation initiative for undergraduates.