Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing

31 Jan 25 @ 17:00 – 19:00 – • Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic, “Perpetrator Disgust: A Morally Destructive Emotion”, in T. Brudholm and J. Lang, Emotions and Mass Atrocity Philosophical and Theoretical Explorations, Cambridge, CUP 2018, 142-161• Thomas E. Wartenberg, “The Act of Killing. Empathy, Morality, and Re-Enactment’”, in David LaRocca, Metacinema, Oxford University Press 2021, 255-269

7th session: Zyglewicz, “Slur Reclamation and the polysemy/homonymy distinction”

31 Jan 25 @ 13:00 – 15:00 – Reclamation of a slur involves the creation of a new, positively-valenced meaning that gradually replaces the old pejorative meaning. This means that at a critical stage, the slur is ambiguous. It has been claimed that this ambiguity is polysemy. However, it is far from clear whether the view can explain why the introduction of the […]