Intersectionality as a Regulative Ideal

Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 6 (2019)
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Abstract

Appeals to intersectionality serve to remind us that social categories like race and gender cannot be adequately understood independently from each other. But what, exactly, is the intersectional thesis a thesis about? Answers to this question are remarkably diverse. Intersectionality is variously understood as a claim about the nature of social kinds, oppression, or experience ; about the limits of antidiscrimination law or identity politics ; or about the importance of fuzzy sets, multifactor analysis, or causal modeling in social science.

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Katherine Gasdaglis
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Alex Madva
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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