[SydPhil] ACU North Sydney Student Event, Friday 1 August 3pm-5:30pm: Conversation with Naomi Scheman about Wittgenstein and Democracy

[Talia Morag]

INVITATION: ACU NORTH SYDNEY STUDENT WORKSHOP:



We are excited to invite interested students to partake in a special event
with the renowned feminist philosopher, NAOMI SCHEMAN, who will talk about
Wittgenstein and Democracy.



Given recent interest, the event is open to students at a senior
undergraduate level, as well as postgraduate level.



Naomi Scheman will present a paper, which will be followed by a short
interview with Talia Morag (ACU), a group discussion with the students, and
refreshments.



WHEN: Friday, August 1 , 3pm-5:30pm

WHERE: ACU North Sydney, ACU Campus, 33 Berry St., Level 11 lounge.



TITLE: “How to do (radical) things with Wittgenstein: Fellow Travellers on
the Rough Ground.”



ABSTRACT: Wittgenstein's later work chastens philosophical temptations to
seek answers to questions that arise from dis-ease with aspects of the
forms of life in which we are embedded. The puzzles we are tempted to solve
cannot be dealt with by what has come (following Charles Mills) to be known
as "ideal theory", appealing to grounding that transcends "what we do".
Wittgenstein's urging us "back to the rough ground" is radically
anti-foundationalist in calling our attention not to bedrock but rather to
the ground literally and metaphorically under our feet. The implications of
such attention lead to what I call "grounded radicality", grounded in
engagement with the diverse specificities of the rough ground on which we
(take a) stand and across which we are complexly entangled with other
beings. Such engagement shifts the understanding and practice of democracy
from its liberal, Enlightenment grounding in (allegedly) universal
rationality to "pluriversal" grappling with irreducible diversity and complex
entanglements.



NAOMI SCHEMAN is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of
Minnesota in the U.S.A., currently living in Boston. She is the author of two
volumes of collected papers in feminist epistemology and metaphysics:
Engenderings:
Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege, (Routledge, 1993)
and Shifting Ground: Knowledge & Reality, Transgression &
Trustworthiness (Oxford University Press, 2011). And she is the co-editor
of Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein (Penn State Press, 2002), Her
subsequent work has continued her efforts to connect Wittgenstein's later
work to issues of current social and political concern, such as prison
abolition, diasporic Jewish ethics, and transgender identities.





-- 
Dr Talia Morag
Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Humanities
Australian Catholic University | North Sydney NSW 2060
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