Diversity Reading List

This reading group will follow four sessions of the blueprint ‘Feminist Logic’ designed by Franci Mangravity and Viviane Fairbank. The sessions will be run by Ravi Thakral (University of Nevada) on the following dates:

• Session 1 – Friday September 4th 2026, 9 – 10 am (PDT)//6 – 7 pm (CET).
  • Readings:  
    • Helen Longino – Circles of Reason: Some Feminist Reflections on Reason and Rationality (2005, Episteme)
    • Andrea Nye – Words of Power: A Feminist Reading of the History of Logic (1990, Routledge) – Introduction.
• Session 2 – Friday September 11th 2026, 9 – 10 am (PDT)//6 – 7 pm (CET).
  • Reading: Val Plumwood – The Politics of Reason: Towards a Feminist Logic (1993, Australasian Journal of Philosophy) 
• Session 3 – Friday September 18th 2026, 9 – 10 am (PDT)//6 – 7 pm (CET).
  • Readings:
    • Marjorie Hass – Can There Be a Feminist Logic? (1999, In Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? (ed. E. Bianchi), Northwestern University Press)
    • Gillian Russell – From Anti-Exceptionalism to Feminist Logic (2024, Hypatia)
• Session 4 – Friday September 25th 2026, 9 – 10 am (PDT)//6 – 7 pm (CET).
  • Reading: Catharine Saint-Croix – Privilege and Position: Formal Tools for Standpoint Epistemology (2020, Res Philosophica)  

You can sign up here. We will share the readings and the link to join the meetings with you.