The network „Bioethics and Structural Injustice“ is delighted to host Sally Haslanger (MIT) for a public online lecture on “Structural Explanation, Levels of Analysis, and System Dynamics” on 9 December 2025, from 19:00 to 20:30 CET.
“Societies are complex dynamic systems and, as a result, are selforganizing – without central authorities – due to their internal structure. Broad social systems are composed of co-integrated sub-systems, such as political and economic systems, but also transportation systems, health care systems, and education systems. To explain how such systems emerge, change, interact, and collapse, we should attend (a) to different levels of analysis (micro, meso, and macro) and (b) intersecting dynamics. In this talk, Sally Haslanger will consider carework as a case study where these different analytical factors matter for explanation.”
Sally Haslanger is Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at MIT. She also teaches in MIT D-Lab, a hands-on program using participatory design to create inclusive, accessible, and sustainable solutions to global poverty challenges. Broadly speaking, her work links issues of social justice concerning gender, race, class (and other social categories) with contemporary work in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language.
Please register here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/8CJ9t6vDgW
We are looking forward to engaging discussions!
Regina Müller, Mirjam Faissner & Carlotta Hartmann, for the network „Bioethics and Structural Injustice“
