The European Research Council funded project ‘Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy’ (BUMP) is delighted to invite submissions for a conference to be held at King’s College London from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th of October 2024.
The BUMP project has been running since 2016, under the leadership of Professor Elselijn Kingma. Its aim was to launch the metaphysics of pregnancy as an important and fundamental area of philosophical research. This workshop will mark the conclusion of the project, and look towards the future.
The theme of the workshop is ‘The metaphysics of pregnancy and beyond’. The main focus of this workshop willbe metaphysical or ontological questions related to pregnancy, parenthood and childbirth; however, we also invite submissions which engage with metaphysical or methodological questions through the lens of ethics, epistemology and feminist philosophy, or that investigate the social, political and ethical context and/or consequences of such metaphysical questions. We aim for this workshop to be a launching pad for future paths of research in the field of the metaphysics of pregnancy, with a specific view to identifying new questions or avenues of inquiry which remain unaddressed in the existing literature.
Register here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/sowerbyproject/1403541
- Alexander Geddes: TBC
- Amber Griffioen: Keep your religion…inside my uterus?! (Or: Can trinitarian metaphysics help us better understand pregnancy?)
- Anne Sophie Mienke: TBC
- Arjun Devanesan: The mereology of pregnancy, according to the immune system
- Bartlomiej Swiatczak: Immunological view of foetal individuality
- Chris Oldfield: When Are Fosters Parts?
- Fiona Wollard: Intimate Entwinement In and After Pregnancy.
- Jola Vollmer: Thinking pregnancy as potentiality
- Jonathan Grose: Who's normal? Pregnancy, the BST and selected effects
- Margarida Hermida: Pregnancy as containment and parthood
- Megan Rawson: The Pregnant Corporation: Using the Metaphysics of Pregnancy to Frame New Ontological Perspectives on the Foster-Gravida ‘Group’
- Sibylle Leonard: Ethical and Legal Implications of Metaphysical Models of Pregnancy
- Xiaodong Wang: Re-ingestion of Childbirth Products and Its Potential Metaphysical Meanings