About
Since the publication of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex in 1949, philosophers have been thinking about what “being a woman” and what “the gender membership” amount to. In her book, de Beauvoir suggested that being a woman is not just a matter of biology (“one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”) and argued that genders are socially constructed constitutively.
The ontology of gender questions what type of thing genders are, how they are created and maintained, and what it is to be gendered. One of the central issues in ontology about gender concerns whether our gender classifications capture a natural kind (a uniform type with a common essence) or a social kind (a unity that does not share essential, “natural” as opposed to “social” proprieties). The ontology of gender studies whether humans create categories of sexual preference and behaviour just like they create many other categories or whether humans are differentiated sexually as the woman/man dichotomy exists in reality. Also, it explores and analyses: the difference between sex and gender (and what is the relationship, if any, between them?); the issue whether biology determines natural kinds; what role does politics play in constructing and/or maintaining “sex” and “gender” categories; what are sexual preference and sexual pleasure; gender discrimination and oppression; pornography.
Main publications
Book Chapters
2018, Tripodi, V., Sugli errori scientifici comunicativi, in Nicla Vassallo (a cura di), La donna non esiste. E l’uomo? Sesso, genere e identità, Codice Edizioni, Torino, pp. 71-84.
2018, Tripodi, V., Il genere e l’eterna disputa tra “essere” e “dover essere”, in Paolo Rigliano (a cura di), Sguardi sul genere. Voci in dialogo, Mimesis, Udine, pp. 147-165.
2013, Casetta, E., “Sesso”, in M.G. Turri, ed., Manifesto per un nuovo femminismo, Milano, Mimesis: 167-182.
2013, Barbero, C., “Pornografia”, in M. G. Turri (ed.), Manifesto per un nuovo femminismo, Udine, Mimesis,pp. 139-149.
2013, Tripodi, V., Stereotipi, in Maria Grazia Turri (a cura di), Manifesto per un nuovo femminismo, Mimesis, Milano, pp. 211-226.
Articles
2018, Torrengo, G., The worst and the best of Propaganda (with B. Cepollaro), “Disputatio” (Disputatio’s Symposium on Jason Stanley’s How Propaganda Works, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2016). Online first: 10.2478/disp-2018-0006.
2017, Tripodi, V., The Value of Diversity and Inclusiveness in philosophy. An overview, in “Rivista di estetica”, 64, 1, LVII, pp. 3-17.
2016, Torrengo G., Institutional Externalism, “Philosophy of the Social Sciences”, 47, 1: 67-85.
2016, Tripodi, V., Epistemic Injustice and Medical Diagnosis, in “Medicina & Storia”, Anno XVI, 9-10, Edizioni ETS, pp. 147-157.
2015, Torrengo G., “”Frocio!” significa “omosessuale”? – sul ruolo delle convenzioni sociali nell’uso degli epiteti denigratori”, “Post n.4 – Convenzioni, linguaggio, realtà”: 48-61.
2015, Tripodi, V., Intuition, Gender and the Under-representation of Women in Philosophy, “Rivista di Estetica”, 58 (1/2015), pp. 134-144.
2013, Tripodi, V., Famiglia e matrimonio minimo, “La Società degli Individui”, 47, pp. 39-52..
2013, Tripodi,V., L’intersessualità in famiglia: la chirurgia genitale (in età pediatrica) è l’unica via possibile?, in “Verifiche. Rivista di scienze umane”, Vol. XLII (1-3): 93-118. ISSN: 0391-4186.
2012, Borghini, A., Casetta, E., Quel che resta dei generi naturali, “Rivista di estetica”, 49: 247-273.
2012, Borghini, A., Food in the Metaphysical Orders: Gender, Race, and the Family, “Humana.Mente”, 22: 1-23
2012, Casetta, E., Tripodi, V., Between Science and Philosophy: New Perspectives on Gender, Sex, Race, and the Family, in Making Sense of Gender, Sex, Race and the Family, “Humana.Mente”, issue 22, September 2012.
2011, Borghini, A., Casetta, E., Tratti, sessi e generi. Un dialogo, “Bioetica”, 1/2011: 35-53.
2009, Tripodi, V., Pensare le categorie di genere come tropi, “Rivista di Filosofia”, 3: 347-372.
2005, Barbero, C., Madame Bovary è concreta come una donna o astratta come una legge?, “Rivista di Estetica”, n. 30, pp. 226-237.