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On Guala’s Money as an Institution and Money as an Object

2024-1 Social Ontology On Guala’s Money as an Institution and Money as an Object SummaryIn his paper, Guala aims to show that “our ordinary ways to conceptualize the social world do not lead to formulate explanatorily powerful theories or generalizations” (Guala 2020: 267). According to him, the clash between two incompatible intuitions is the origin of philosophical paradoxes. However, the intu..

Landini (2012) Frege’s Notations What They Are and How They Mean (1) Introduction

Landini, Gregory (2012). Frege's Notations: What They Are and How They Mean. London and Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. [1-14]  ※ Author’s Note on the Use of Modern Logical NotationsThe book endeavors to explain Frege’s notations in terms of modern notations. It is therefore worth making a few comments on the modern notations used in the book that might not be familiar to readers. In addition t..

On Gheaus’s Care Drain: who should provide for the children left behind?

2024-2 Feminist Ethics On Gheaus’s Care Drain: who should provide for the children left behind? Criticizing a neoliberal approach to globalization, Gheaus upholds that care drain is both a morally harmful and unjust phenomenon that needs to be amended (Gheaus 2013: 6-12). According to Gheaus, the harmful effects of care drain are extensive: migrant parents (especially mothers) experience guilt o..

Analytic/Ethics 2024.09.22

Haslanger (2023) Systemic and Structural Injustice: Is There a Difference?

2024-2 Feminist EthicsHaslanger S. Systemic and Structural Injustice: Is There a Difference? Philosophy. 2023;98(1):1-27.   1. IntroductionIn 1963, after the bombing at the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four girls (Addie May Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Denise McNair, and Carole Robertson), Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a eulogy [조문] for the ‘young victims’.One passage re..

Analytic/Ethics 2024.09.19

Guala (2020) Money as an Institution and Money as an Object

2024-2 Social Ontology Guala, Francesco. "Money as an Institution and Money as an Object" Journal of Social Ontology, vol. 6, no. 2, 2020, pp. 265-279.   1 IntroductionThe world of our ordinary experience is made of chairs, trees, dogs, hats, cars, and other middle-sized concrete entities. Human cognition seems to be programmed to pick up objects of this kind, and there are obvious pragmatic rea..

K. Koslicki (2018) Artifacts, in: Form, Matter, Substance Ch. 8

2024-2 Social OntologyK. Koslicki (2018). “Artifacts”, ch.8 of Form, Matter, Substance  8.1 Introductory Remarks Artifacts have come up several times during the course of this study.① Firstly, we considered artifacts in Chapter 3, in the context of discussing the assignment of forms to their proper ontological category. In this context, I brought up the account developed by Evnine (2016a) who pr..

Gheaus (2013) Care drain: who should provide for the children left behind?

2024-2 Feminist EthicsAnca Gheaus (2013) Care drain: who should provide for the children left behind?, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 16:1, 1-23  IntroductionThe massive migration of people from a country or a region to another country or region can trigger various problems for those who stay behind, especially when migration happens at short notice and in the ..

Analytic/Ethics 2024.09.17

Brake (2020) Care as Work. The Exploitation of Caring Attitudes and Emotional Labor.

2024-2 Feminist EthicsBrake, Elizabeth (2020) "Care as Work. The Exploitation of Caring Attitudes and Emotional Labor." Caring for Liberalism. Routledge.  Introduction: Care, Value, and WorkCare is a great good. It is also a source of special vulnerabilities [취약성], especially as a form of labor, both paid and unpaid. How can liberalism address these complexities of caring relations, particularly..

Analytic/Ethics 2024.09.15

Bartky (1990) Feeding Egos and Tending Wounds: Deference and Disaffection in Women's Emotional Labor

2024-2 Feminist EthicsBartky, S. L. (1990) Feeding Egos and Tending Wounds: Deference and Disaffection in Women's Emotional Labor. in: Femininity and Domination, Routledge. (Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.Shulamith Firestone 1Connell Cowan and Melvyn Kinder: "What a man is attracted to most deeply in a woman, is a magical mi..

Analytic/Ethics 2024.09.15