I am strongly in favor of all such efforts, but with "UP" is there is still
the implication that the norm defines us?

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Ruth Chang <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Look out for the UPDirectory coming (we hope) this January! It's a fully
> voluntary, self-identification underrepresented philosophers directory that
> is searchable. So if you want to find all people  who entered their info
> and self-identify as 'Black' or 'Black (Afro-Carribean)' or 'Person with a
> Disability'  or...who work on 'Epistemology' or 'Dubois' or even more
> specific subjects...you can soon do so! It could be a really great resource
> for collaborations and is being put together by a bunch of volunteers - Liz
> Anderson, Tina Botts, me, Sally Haslanger, Manuel Vargas, and Rebecca
> Millsop. We will really need people from this list to enter their info when
> it launches.
>
> Ruth Chang
>
>
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> On Oct 10, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Anne Waters wrote:
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> “UP”
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> Dr. Anne Waters, J.D., Ph.D.
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> http://foxgull.com/aswaters/default.html
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> http://philpapers.org/profile/61350
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> http://www.apaonline.org/members/
> portfolio.interfolio.com/waters
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> On Oct 10, 2014, at 8:37 AM, Chris J. Cuomo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Thanks so much, Sara. Absolutely, yes, that is all I meant by feminist
> philosophy seal of approval. Apologies if that sounded ridiculous. The
> initiatives taken by feminist and otherwise right-on graduate students in
> philosophy regarding issues of pluralism, diversity, and better philosophy
> continue to be impressive and transformative. As for the minoritizing
> language, I don't want to get into a big long thing, but at least
> "underrepresented" is preferable to "minority" because it indicates that
> the sources of disproportionate numbers in various professions are
> injustices. Also there's the fact that people of color and women are the
> global majority. As for the case of our own profession, the minority
> discourse gives life to the view that philosophy is a white man's world,
> and it's a lovely thing that the gates are now open for democratic
> participation, and the inclusion of the gals and darker groups and lower
> class, etc. But maybe philosophy only recently became a white man's world,
> and maybe justice and better philosophy are not about numbers of people in
> graduate school, and etc. etc etc.
>
> I'm obviously blabbing away here when I should be finishing up an essay
> that is due painfully soon. I do get why "MAP" is a nicer name than "UPAP"
> (underrepresented people in philosophy). Maybe someone among us has a
> perfect feminist philosophy article or reference to share that does a much
> better job of summing up an intersectional twenty-first century antiracist
> feminist view of the delimiting limits of the discourse of "minority" ?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Sara Protasi <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chris and all,
>>
>> I am one of the co-founders of the original MAP group. It was founded at
>> Yale, and evolved from a group called GAP, which stands for Gender and
>> Philosophy.
>>
>> GAP was born in response to initiatives such as the "What It's Like To Be
>> A Woman In Philosophy" blog. I was depressed by so many stories, and by my
>> own personal experiences as a woman in philosophy, and wanted to do
>> something about it, so I started the working group that became GAP. But
>> after a while we realized that it was hypocritical to think about the
>> underrepresentation and experience of discrimination and harassment of
>> women, but not of non-White, disabled, or LGBTQ philosophers (and other
>> underrepresented or at risk of discrimination groups), and so we changed it
>> to MAP.
>> Yena Lee, who was an undergraduate at Yale and one of the MAP members,
>> had the idea of creating a network of chapters, and found institutional
>> support at Princeton, where she is now a graduate student. In short, that's
>> the story.
>>
>> I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts about both the name and the
>> initiative. We did not think too carefully about the name, to be honest. We
>> liked the idea of finding a "map" to fill the "gap"...
>>
>> There is no relation to PIKSI, by the way, at least not a genealogical
>> one. As I am not in the board of directors of the MAP network, I am not
>> aware of possible current collaborations.
>>
>> As with regard to feminist seals of approval, we received informal
>> approval and support from many feminists, and many of us consider ourselves
>> as such: does that count?! :)
>>
>> All best,
>> Sara
>>
>> P.S. Here is a longer version of the story, which we sent to "What We are
>> Doing":
>>
>> *Although relatively young, the Minorities and Philosophy working group
>> (MAP for short) at Yale University has already seen three stages of
>> development.*
>>
>> *It was born in Fall 2010 as Women and Philosophy working group. This was
>> a group of female graduate students interested in addressing the issue of
>> the dearth of women in philosophy, and the related issues of sexual
>> discrimination and sexual harassment in academia, that had been brought to
>> the fore by your sister-blog (“What is it like to be a woman in
>> philosophy?”). The formation of the group was supported from the very
>> beginning by Prof. Tamar Gendler, chair of the department.*
>>
>> *During the first meeting of Women and Philosophy, which included both
>> undergraduate and graduate female students, the participants voted to open
>> the working group to male participants. The decision was taken after
>> weighing considerations for and against a co-ed group. Among the reasons
>> against, there was the interest in creating a friendly and welcoming place
>> for women in a mostly male environment, along the lines of similar
>> initiatives (see for instance the Women Faculty Forum Lunches at Yale).
>> Among the reasons for, there was the shared conviction that in order to
>> improve such an environment it was fundamental to include men in the
>> dialogue, and to send the message that questions of gender should be a
>> matter of attention of a department (and a profession) as a whole.*
>>
>> *The group therefore started its activities under the name of Gender and
>> Philosophy in February 2011, with a talk by Ruth Barcan Marcus titled
>> “Women in Philosophy: Past, Present and Future”. It was followed by three
>> other talks, all well-attended by women and men alike, and by faculty,
>> graduates and undergraduates alike.*
>>
>> *In 2011-2012 GAP held eight meetings, four per semester, which consisted
>> of 2 reading groups and 6 talks from internal and external speakers.*
>>
>> *In both years of activity, we received organizational support from the
>> Women Faculty Forum at Yale, which co-sponsored some of the events, and
>> financial support from both the university (namely the Dean’s Fund for
>> Research Workshops of the Graduate School) and the department.*
>>
>> *At the end of its second year, GAP evolved into MAP, Minorities and
>> Philosophy, after the decision to expand the scope to issues concerning any
>> minority issues in philosophy. Starting from this school year, we plan to
>> host talks addressing: a) the minority issues in the profession, b)
>> theoretical issues regarding philosophy of gender, race, sexual
>> orientation, disability, etc., and c) philosophy done from minority
>> perspectives.*
>>
>> *The group maintains its characteristic openness in content and format.
>> With regard to the latter, so far we have had both informal talks with
>> extended discussion, and reading groups, and we are looking into the
>> possibility of a lecture series and workshops of a more practical character
>> (for instance, workshops on communication techniques). With regard to the
>> former, we believe that addressing the minority gap in philosophy requires
>> a multi-focused strategy.*
>>
>> *On the one hand, it is necessary to diagnose the nature of the problem
>> and its causes. One way to do this is to ask questions from the internal
>> perspective of philosophy and its specific characteristics (for instance,
>> is there anything in philosophy that is uniquely responsible for the
>> professional and academic disadvantage of minority groups?). Another way is
>> to look at analogous issues in other disciplines to diagnose fundamental
>> problems, and ideally, offer solutions.*
>>
>> *On the other hand, it is important to show that philosophy can be done
>> in many ways. One way to make philosophy friendlier to women and other
>> minorities is to make philosophy more about women and other minorities – to
>> discuss issues in feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, gender, sexual
>> orientation, disability, and so forth. Additionally, it is also important
>> to have speakers who are members of minority groups, independently of what
>> their philosophical interests are. We want to address the minority gap by
>> giving prominence to the minority members themselves.*
>>
>> *Moving from GAP to MAP is not just a name change but a sign of optimism:
>> we really hope we can contribute to finding the paths to fill the gaps in
>> our profession.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-10-10 14:44 GMT+01:00 Chris J. Cuomo <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>>> Hello Feast folks,
>>> The announcement below for an interesting-looking grad student
>>> conference at USF includes the following: "We especially encourage
>>> contributions from underrepresented perspectives in philosophy for a
>>> special session sponsored by Minorities and Philosophy (MAP)."
>>>
>>> The discourse of "minorities" is so problematic.I believe this is the
>>> first I have heard about MAP, but I get my philosophy news from limited
>>> sources, and I don't read every group email that lands in my box.
>>>
>>> Given the large number of chapters of MAP in the US (and a few in the
>>> UK, see http://www.mapforthegap.com/), I'm sure there are FEAST members
>>> involved in MAP. I would like to know more about it, and perhaps others on
>>> this list would as well.
>>>
>>> Is there any sort of relationship between MAP and PIKSI? Should there
>>> be? I'd appreciate any information about MAP and whether it has any sort of
>>> feminist philosophy seal of approval ; )
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris Cuomo
>>> University of Georgia
>>>
>>>
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>>> Faculty Keynote: Lee Braver
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>>> This conference explores various ways of delimiting limits, in relation
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>>> We invite interpretations of and contributions to this topic from a
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>>> - a Kantian metaphysical legacy and the noumenal limit;
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>>> - a theological limit to philosophical questioning, reason, and
>>> knowledge;
>>> - the 'unthought' and the limits of what is thinkable (and how this
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>>> - polyamory, polymorphous perversity, and the limit(lessness) of desire;
>>> - bodily limits: dis/ability and crip theories;
>>> - post-nationality, anarchy and the limits of citizenship, rights,
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>>> - the margins of philosophy (the canon and its self-perpetuating limits):
>>> critical race theory, liberation theology, MEChA, feminisms;
>>> - the strange, uncanny, monstrous;
>>> - the sublime in art praxis and the limit of sense and representation;
>>> - queerness and the limits of binary;
>>> - 'the border' qua inter/national, identity, or micro-politics;
>>> - liminal cases in ethics, the development of ethics at the limits of
>>> morality;
>>> - temporal limits: death, ecstasy, the conditional tense (futurity);
>>> - law and legal limits of acceptable and appropriate behavior, the limits
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>>> - psychopathology and the limits of dis-ease: what pathologizing reveals
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>>> - intuition, discovery and the limits of scientific methodology;
>>> - animality and the limits of humanness;
>>> - ambiguity and the limits of self-ownership, ipseity, property;
>>> - modal possibilities at the limits of propositional logic;
>>> - analytic-continental divide and the limit of discipline
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>>> from underrepresented perspectives in philosophy for a special session
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>> Sara Protasi
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>> Department of Philosophy
>> Yale University
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