Public Lecture, SINTA | ICS
«Ethics, Politics, and Epistemology of Care»
When?
Mon, 1 December 25
19.15–20.45 CEST
via Zoom
Registration
To receive the Zoom link,
please register by email:
Hannah Ambuehl
Johanna Paschen, PhD of the EcoArtLab, is co-organising the public lecture on «Ethics, Politics, and Epistemology of Care», with Prof. Dr. Vrinda Dalmiya.
This lecture traces how feminist care ethics—rooted in the recognition of shared bodily fragility—must be expanded to include what can be called epistemic vulnerability: the openness to being cognitively undone. Care, understood as an in-time embodied practice, unfolds under conditions of uncertainty, producing an ‘emergent normativity’—an ‘ought’ that is shaped through ethical encounter and cannot be prescribed in advance. This challenges conventional belief desire models of action, inviting alternative accounts of the rationality of acts of care. A theory of knowing built on such caring practice, decenters th quest for certainty and embraces not-knowing in various ways. Could such epistemological shifts loop back to re-theorize fundamental care-concepts beyond their Eurocentric articulations? How might an epistemology reimagined in this way, open up new horizons for thinking, making, and being together in more-than-human worlds?
Vrinda Dalmiya is a professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawai`i, Mānoa. She has been a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla in India. Her research interests are in analytic feminist theory with a focus on care ethics, feminist epistemology, environment and gender, and comparative philosophy. She is the author of several articles in these areas, the author of the monograph, Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahābhārata (2016), and co-editor of Exploring Agency in the Mahābhārata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma (2018).
«Ethics, Politics, and Epistemology of Care»
When?
Mon, 1 December 25
19.15–20.45 CEST
via Zoom
Registration
To receive the Zoom link,
please register by email:
Hannah Ambuehl
Johanna Paschen, PhD of the EcoArtLab, is co-organising the public lecture on «Ethics, Politics, and Epistemology of Care», with Prof. Dr. Vrinda Dalmiya.
This lecture traces how feminist care ethics—rooted in the recognition of shared bodily fragility—must be expanded to include what can be called epistemic vulnerability: the openness to being cognitively undone. Care, understood as an in-time embodied practice, unfolds under conditions of uncertainty, producing an ‘emergent normativity’—an ‘ought’ that is shaped through ethical encounter and cannot be prescribed in advance. This challenges conventional belief desire models of action, inviting alternative accounts of the rationality of acts of care. A theory of knowing built on such caring practice, decenters th quest for certainty and embraces not-knowing in various ways. Could such epistemological shifts loop back to re-theorize fundamental care-concepts beyond their Eurocentric articulations? How might an epistemology reimagined in this way, open up new horizons for thinking, making, and being together in more-than-human worlds?
Vrinda Dalmiya is a professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Hawai`i, Mānoa. She has been a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla in India. Her research interests are in analytic feminist theory with a focus on care ethics, feminist epistemology, environment and gender, and comparative philosophy. She is the author of several articles in these areas, the author of the monograph, Caring to Know: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mahābhārata (2016), and co-editor of Exploring Agency in the Mahābhārata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma (2018).
