A short guide to analytic philosophy of gender
Thjs post is a series of notes I took while making my way through the philosophy of gender. Since writing it about 6 months ago I've done a lot more reading into epistemology and the philosophies of science and language, and there's a lot of revisions I'd like to make. In other words, I now think much of the content of this post is dubious but I'll keep it up for the time being as it might serve as a helpful resource for understanding the literature. The post is about the philosophy of language, the question "what is a woman?" and taxonomizing positions in th e philosophy of gender. Metasemantics and Methodologies 1.1 The dictionary . A natural starting place for answering questions like “what is a woman?” is the dictionary. But what can the dictionary actually tell us? Quine writes: The lexicographer is an empirical scientist, whose business is the recording of antecedent facts; and if he glosses 'bachelor' as 'unmarried man' it is because o