Iona Italia & Francesca Minerva , Two for Tea Podcast

67 - Francesca Minerva - Controversial Ideas, including about Beauty

08 Nov 2020 • 107 min • EN
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Find out more about Francesca, including her academic publications, here: https://www.francescaminerva.com/ For more on the Journal of Controversial Ideas, co-edited with Peter Singer: https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/ Her interview with Jay Shapiro can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScOeJnLiCb4 For more on Francesca’s controversial paper with Francesco Giubilini: https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/5/261.short Her 2004 paper in Bioethics on academic freedom can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bioe.12066 Her 2017 paper, “Rethinking Academic Freedom” is here: https://www.int-res.com/articles/esep2015/15/e015p095.pdf Follow Francesca on Twitter @franciminerva Further References Rebecca Tuvel, “In Defence of Transracialism” (2017): ttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hypa.12327 Timestamps 2:03 Francesca’s paper with Francesco Giubilini and the resulting furore 8:05 The need for the Journal of Controversial Ideas and how it works 26:19 How new media and especially social media have impacted academic freedom 50:47 Lookism (discrimination against the unattractive) 1:05:55 Cultural vs. evolutionary conceptions of beauty 1:13:45 Cosmetic surgery 1:18:10 Men’s and women’s different relationship to looks, more on cosmetic surgery, photoshop 1:29:55 Vaginoplasty 1:33:47 Incels ERRATUM: Rebecca Tuvel's paper on transracialism has not been retracted. It can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hypa.12327

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