Ayhan, Sara. Queer feminist logic and contradictions: Or how logic and feminism can be relevant to each other
2025, Synthese 206: 179
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Added by: Viviane FairbankAbstract:
Work in the field of feminist logic is still rather scarce and the field itself remains a contested area of study, but still, it is developing. One approach concentrates on analyzing logical systems with respect to structural features that may perpetuate sexism and oppression or, on the other hand, features that may be helpful for resist-ing and opposing these social phenomena. Upon this assumption, I want to inves-tigate possible applications of queer feminist views on (philosophy of) logic with respect to a very specific group, namely contradictory logics, i.e., logical systems containing contradictions in their set of theorems. I want to show that, on the one hand, the formal set-up of contradictory logics makes them well-suited from the perspectives of feminist logic and, on the other hand, that queer feminist theories provide a relevant, and so far undeveloped, conceptual motivation for contradictory logics. Thus, bringing together contradictory logics and queer feminist theories may prove fruitful both as a ‘real-life’ motivation for these peripheral logical systems and as a formal basis for a philosophical field that is still characterized by a distrust of formalism.Comment: This paper would be appropriately included in any course concerned with formal approaches in feminist philosophy or feminist philosophy of logic. It serves as a useful example of how certain feminist insights might motivate the pursuit of specific formal logical projects, and it provides a clear introduction to the philosophy and formal systems of contradictory logics.
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