Workshop on Feminist Logic

Information

Feminist Logic is a relatively new but upcoming area of study. Work in this field sheds light on sexist (and other) biases in the area of logic. This is a very broad conception but it captures the diversity of the area of Feminist Logic. More specifically, Feminist Logic can mean...

•  ... to use logical tools for feminist ends, e.g., to uncover biases in arguments or to model social hierarchies to make patriarchal structures explicit,

• ... to look at the history of logic from a feminist perspective, e.g., by revealing so far disregarded contributions by female logicians and exposing exclusionary practices that led to their invisibility,

• ... to consider teaching practices in logic and how those disadvantage certain underrepresented groups,

• ... to devise, revise and/or argue for logical systems from a distinctly feminist perspective, e.g., certain logical systems may seem better or worse suited for formalizing feminist arguments.

This workshop aims at sharing and discussing the latest research in this area by bringing together both highly distinguished as well as early career researchers.

Please note: The conference is currently planned to be held as an in-person event. We will try to make at least a minimal passive participation possible, which would mean that online participants can follow the talks but not the discussion etc. online via Zoom. 

Speakers

There will be a discussion session for short presentations (5-10 mins) focused on exploring open problems and potential research directions in Feminist Logic with the following participants:

• Matthew Cull (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): Should Feminists Be Humeans? Barriers to Entailment, Facts, and Values

• Evelyn Erickson (UFSC, Brazil): The Politics of Reason and Reflective Equilibrium

• Dustin Gooßens (RUB, Germany): Logic and Ethics as Transcendental: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Feminist Logic

• Martin Pleitz (Uni Münster, Germany): Logical Injustice: The Case of Pronouns

• Puja Raj (Alliance University, Bangalore, India): The Logic Curriculum as a Gatekeeping Tool: Feminist Interventions in Teaching Formal Reasoning

• Mahan Vaz (RUB, Germany & Unicamp, Brazil): Genderqueering Nondeterministic Semantics

Note that a Topical Collection in Synthese on the topic of the workshop is in preparation. The deadline for submissions of papers to the Topical Collection is October 1, 2025. See here for the CfP.