Jenkin's Norm-Relevancy Account
Jenkin's Norm-Relevancy Account
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17 October 2024, 10.30am - 12.00 pm
Classroom 22 (Cendana), Yale-NUS College
Suppose Katharine identifies as a woman. Here's a layperson definition of what that means: to be a woman is to identify as a woman. But this definition is circular. Intuitively, our gender identities are not hollow. We want a definition that gives substance to gender identity. After all, the validity of gender identity is foundational to many feminist and transgender activist movements. Jenkins considers several accounts of gender identity, and argues that the norm-relevancy account is the only one that aligns with our intuitions about gender identity. We will consider Jenkins's account in detail, and explore how the alternative accounts might respond to Jenkins's objections.
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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