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Esa Díaz-León is an associate professor in philosophy at the University of Barcelona. She received her doctorate from the University of Sheffield and has taught at the University of Manitoba (Canada). She specializes in philosophy of mind and language, and philosophy of gender, race and sexuality. She has written articles and volume chapters on a variety of topics, including the nature of consciousness and phenomenal concepts, the meaning of ‘woman’, the nature of social construction, methodological issues in social ontology and in conceptual engineering, and the nature of sexual orientation. Her first book, “The Metaphysics of Gender” is forthcoming in the Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics series in Cambridge University Press.
This talk is organized in connection to the PhD course Issues in the Meta-Metaphysics and Meta-Semantics of Social Ontology: Amelioration and Social Construction, organized by Isabella Bartoli.