2015-09-28
20 分钟This is philosophy bites with me, Nigel.
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In 1976, he won the men's decathlon at the Olympics.
But four decades later, Bruce Jenner announced that he was now a she and that henceforth she was to be known as Caitlyn Jenner.
The claim is sometimes made that gender is a social construct.
But perhaps the case of Caitlyn Jenner complicates matters.
Jessie Prinze has been thinking about the subject of social construction.
Jesse Prince, welcome to philosophy bites.
Thank you, Nigel.
Great to be back with you.
The topic we're going to focus on is, is everything socially constructed?
Well, let's just start by looking at the notion of social construction.
What does that mean?
The term is used differently by different authors.
For me, it begins with a question of how do we understand the world?
And from that we get the notion that our access to the world is always filtered through social practices, through various norms, through methods of inquiry.
And you move from that to the idea that our access to the world is filtered through us to a second claim, a relativist claim that there are many perspectives on the world, there are multiple different ways of constructing or viewing reality that people use.