Dr Jade Fletcher will be giving a presentation titled “Realism and Debunking about Social Kinds” from 4-6 pm Wednesday May 4th. It is a Hyrbid event taking place in Castecliffe Seminar Room G5W and Teams. For any queries or a link to join the online meeting please email arche-fem-soc[at]st-andrews.ac.uk.<\/p>\n
Realism and Debunking about Social Kinds \u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n
Debates about realism and anti-realism in social constructionist metaphysics persist. Often, conceptions of realism stated in terms of mind-independence tend to rule out social kinds from being really<\/i> real. Recently, there has been a lot of push-back by social metaphysicians to anti-realist readings of social constructionism. Defending the reality of a social kind is then understood to consist in showing that it is sufficiently objective, that it is causally efficacious, or perhaps deflating the distinction between the natural and the social.<\/p>\n
This paper aims to articulate an often-ignored conception of realism which does justice to the core theoretical purpose of a range of social constructionist theories. According to epistemic conceptions of realism, realism should be characterised by the possibility of substantive error. For the realist, the search for truth is a matter of discovery not invention, and success is not guaranteed. I argue that this epistemological conception of realism best captures the aims and methods of the those social constructionist theories that aim to debunk our ordinary beliefs about the social world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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