Last week, Alex Byrne published a book entitled “The Philosophy of Alex Byrne”. Quillette The article below explains how to get started. Holly Lawford Smith, a political philosophy professor at the University of Melbourne, and he both experienced violations of academic publishing standards. Byrne and Lawford-Smith are two of very few philosophers—and Byrne is the only senior philosopher (that is, of independent name recognition in the discipline)—who’ve been willing to publicly defend some claims inconsistent with contemporary orthodoxy in the philosophy of sex and gender.
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Lawford Smith has made the claim for females to have their own space, services, and provision, while Byrne makes the claim for women as adult human females. Lawford-Smith’s arguments run counter to the orthodox view that males who identify as women have a right to everything to which female people have a right, and Byrne’s run counter to the orthodox view that males who identify as women are women.
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