Public lecture, December 9, 2025, 19:00 to 20:30 CET
Invitation
The network “Bioethics and Structural Injustice” is excited to welcome Sally Haslanger (MIT) for a public lecture on structural explanation and its merits in thinking about structural injustice in bioethics.
Abstract
Societies are complex dynamic systems and, as a result, are self-organizing – without central authorities – due to their internal structure. Broad social systems are composed of co-integrated sub-systems, such as political and economic systems, but also transportation systems, health care systems, and education systems. To explain how such systems emerge, change, interact, and collapse, we should attend (a) to different levels of analysis (micro, meso, and macro) and (b) intersecting dynamics. In this talk, I will consider carework as a case study where these different analytical factors matter for explanation.
Details & Registration
The talk, followed by a discussion, will take place online on December 9, 2025, from 19:00 to 20:30 CET.
Please register here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/8CJ9t6vDgW. We are looking forward to broad participation!
Regina Müller and Mirjam Faissner, for the network “Bioethics and Structural Injustice”
About:
Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at MIT. She also teaches in MIT D-Lab, a hands-on program using participatory design to create inclusive, accessible, and sustainable solutions to global poverty challenges. Broadly speaking, her work links issues of social justice concerning gender, race, class (and other social categories) with contemporary work in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language. For more information, see: http://sallyhaslanger.weebly.com