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The gender puzzles

Author(s) -

Fileva Iskra

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

european journal of philosophy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42

H-Index - 36

eISSN - 1468-0378

pISSN - 0966-8373

DOI - 10.1111/ejop.12550

Subject(s) - sympathy , existentialism , gender psychology , psychology , biological sex , social psychology , epistemology , gender identity , philosophy

What is gender and how do we know what our gender is? These are the questions I propose to answer here. I review and reject several hypotheses: gender as sex or—a more careful version of the view—as subjective experiences that arise from sexual characteristics; gender as brain configuration; and gender as a historical kind. I express sympathy with an existentialist conception of gender but argue that such a conception, even according to its proponents, cannot help solve the problems of what gender is and how we know what our gender is. I then advance a new view.

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