CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Savic, Jelena |
|---|---|
| Title | The Missing Link: Scientific Sexism, Racism and Speciesism |
| Summary | In this paper I am undertaking a multidisciplinary investigation of causes, conditions and connections of discriminatory practices in the domain of science which are based on sexist, racist and speciesist assumptions. Pessimistic meta-induction and analogy are used as methods. The practice of racism and sexism in science are recognized as analogous forms of dehumanization, a process of denial of essentialized human identity. Further analogous analysis of the historically and morally grounded concept of anthropocentrism, a form of speciesism, with the practices of scientific sexism and racism reveals a connection between those elements - unquestioned anthropocentrism as entailed by, and necessary condition of, animalistic dehumanization. Both dehumanization and anthropocentrism in science are analogously operating on essentialism, hierarchy, dichotomy and exclusion which leads to the conclusion that we have some reason to believe that at least some currently successful scientific theories which in some way include reference to other species, or our relation with other species, might be false due the speciesism. |
| Supervisor | Katalin Farkas |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/savic_jelena.pdf |
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