67 - Francesca Minerva - Controversial Ideas, including about Beauty

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ERRATUM: Rebecca Tuvel's paper on transracialism has not been retracted.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