What are Sex and Gender and what Do We Want them to Be?
We are living in times where there is considerable debate over what sex and gender are and who gets to be of what sex and what gender. These are questions that impact people’s lives greatly, some more than others. They are metaphysical questions, but they also concern what principles we should be gu...
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| description | We are living in times where there is considerable debate over what sex and gender are and who gets to be of what sex and what gender. These are questions that impact people’s lives greatly, some more than others. They are metaphysical questions, but they also concern what principles we should be guided by when allocating resources, services, and protections to people with potentially different needs. There are also methodological questions in the vicinity. In this essay, I draw on my work in Categories We Live By (2018) to suggest a certain approach to navigating some of these thorny issues. I call this approach “ontic descent”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b4e07f20510e43f8843c897b2a7220522023-12-22T06:39:01ZengUbiquity PressMetaphysics2515-82792023-11-016137–4437–4410.5334/met.118118What are Sex and Gender and what Do We Want them to Be?Ásta Ásta0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0252-6527Duke UniversityWe are living in times where there is considerable debate over what sex and gender are and who gets to be of what sex and what gender. These are questions that impact people’s lives greatly, some more than others. They are metaphysical questions, but they also concern what principles we should be guided by when allocating resources, services, and protections to people with potentially different needs. There are also methodological questions in the vicinity. In this essay, I draw on my work in Categories We Live By (2018) to suggest a certain approach to navigating some of these thorny issues. I call this approach “ontic descent”.https://account.metaphysicsjournal.com/index.php/up-j-m/article/view/118sexgenderconferralismsocial constructionontic descent |
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