Dembroff's Critical Gender Kinds
Dembroff's Critical Gender Kinds
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10 October 2024, 10.30am - 12.00 pm
Classroom 22 (Cendana), Yale-NUS College
I have a gender. Many of us do. But what does that even mean? Most philosophical accounts of gender can be broadly categorised as internalist or externalist, depending on whether you think gender is determined by something internal or external to the person. But most accounts of gender fall apart when applied to non-binary genders. Dembroff's solution is, very aptly, to reject the internalism/externalism binary, and posit what they call critical gender kinds. On Dembroff's account, for a person to be genderqueer is, roughly speaking, for them to feel both an internal and external sense of being at odds with gender norms. We will consider Dembroff's view in detail, and the explanatory work done by positing critical gender kinds.
Ryan Yeo '24 ' graduated with a BA (Hons.) in Philosophy from Yale-NUS College, where they won the 2024 Philosophy Capstone Prize for their capstone titled “The Structural Quotational Account of Phenomenal Concepts”. They currently work as a Philosophy Research Assistant at Yale-NUS and as an early childhood educator. During their time at Yale-NUS, they were President of Yale-NUS Improv and Managing Editor of The Octant. They are an active member of the improv troupe 7-Star Cendol, and have designed improv workshops for classes in the philosophy of games, climate justice, Buddhism, and the philosophy of gender. They wrote a chapbook length poetry collection in their final year, titled “The Life Cycle of the Depressed Mind”, and their poetry has been published in local anthologies such as “Contour” and “SG Poems 2017-2018”.
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