This super interesting episode of History's Heroes with Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social and Keith Allen @keithallenyork.bsky.social explores Margaret Cavendish's neurodivergence - something we're also interested in for AMEND's research!: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

History's Heroes - BONUS Margaret Cavendish Blazes Through the World Part 2 - BBC Sounds

Alex von Tunzelmann and Professor Keith Allen discuss the life of Margaret Cavendish.

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I so enjoyed talking to @keithallenyork.bsky.social about Margaret Cavendish, 17th century duchess and author of one of the first works of sci-fi – possibly even the first romantasy! Really interesting as a historian to discuss with a philosopher how we can talk about neurodivergences in history.

AMEND - eArly Modern European NeuroDivergence@amendproject.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This super interesting episode of History's Heroes with Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social and Keith Allen @keithallenyork.bsky.social explores Margaret Cavendish's neurodivergence - something we're also interested in for AMEND's research!: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What do you see in a double eclipse? Philosophers agree you see the far object. But which part? Not the front, and not the back. The edge? Daniel García Saavedra, argues you see the far object, without seeing any of its parts. Read it here: philpapers.org/rec/GARBPS-2

Check out Ed Willems's new paper on the metaphysics of gender, in which Ed argues for an "inferentialist" account of gender as a para-social feature which is real, yet preserves the validity of gender identity self-ascriptions: t.ly/KfCSi

Solving the inclusion problem: gender without representationalism - Synthese

Recent work in the metaphysics of gender mostly focuses on trying to solve the exclusion problem - roughly, the problem of giving a metaphysical account of gender that doesn’t exclude anyone from thei...

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