Eline Gerritsen

Doctor of Philosophy / Postdoc @ Universität Hamburg /
metaethics, normativity, social norms

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

My PhD thesis 'Demystifying Normativity: Morality, Error Theory, and the Authority of Norms' is publicly accessible here: https://t.co/KsrI2J5qI6

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

My thesis is now a physical object! (And it's pretty!)

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

New blogpost: It's Not Just About Forks https://t.co/XhNAHNtPe8

Social norms get misrepresented in metaethics with the focus on the niche of formal dinner party etiquette. For a serious analysis of social normativity, we need to look far beyond fork rules.

[Anna Vlasits @AnnaIntegrated]

I'm having the saddest interaction with @wearehims and @wearehers, a predatory telehealth company. My mom has gone through a mental and cognitive health decline in the last few years. She also struggles with binge eating. THREAD 🧵

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

New blogpost: on what I learned from my students' examples of social norms.
https://t.co/sfhRf2LDJK

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

I will be on a research visit in Stockholm again in September-mid October. I'm already planning a visit to Gothenburg but would gladly come to more places while I'm around - so if anyone in Sweden would be interested in a talk on social norms/normativity, do reach out!

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

Junk norms! Habits! Micropleasures! Social critique! Cancel culture! Privacy! Self-respect! Normativity!

All of this and more will be covered at my conference 'Taking Social Norms Seriously'. Programme now online: https://t.co/jOJ69faXUd

5-6 July in Hamburg, all welcome.

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

Last day to submit an abstract to the Taking Social Norms Seriously conference!

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

I'm organising a conference in connection with my postdoc project:

Taking Social Norms Seriously, 5-6 July, Uni Hamburg

If you work on any aspect of social norms, do consider applying! I'm trying to get a broad mix of perspectives together.

Info: https://t.co/BdEjrqzQFR

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

I'm organising a conference in connection with my postdoc project:

Taking Social Norms Seriously, 5-6 July, Uni Hamburg

If you work on any aspect of social norms, do consider applying! I'm trying to get a broad mix of perspectives together.

Info: https://t.co/BdEjrqzQFR

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

@Philosophy_Law Thanks, I hadn't heard of this!

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

Can anyone point me to literature on the link between etiquette(/manners) and class(/social inequality/exclusion)? I'm surprised at how little I am finding on this...

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

I'm organising a conference in connection with my postdoc project:

Taking Social Norms Seriously, 5-6 July, Uni Hamburg

If you work on any aspect of social norms, do consider applying! I'm trying to get a broad mix of perspectives together.

Info: https://t.co/BdEjrqzQFR

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

@SaraLUckelman Happy pub day!

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

New blogpost: Thick Rules in Ice Cream Shops

Using insights from Lorraine Daston and Karen Stohr, I explore an understanding of social norms as thick rules and explain why Larry David is no etiquette expert.

https://t.co/8aZXdCVTL9

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

New blogpost: Thick Rules in Ice Cream Shops

Using insights from Lorraine Daston and Karen Stohr, I explore an understanding of social norms as thick rules and explain why Larry David is no etiquette expert.

https://t.co/8aZXdCVTL9

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

@calebdward Amazing!

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

@Emiliarative @Jade_E_Fletcher Congratulations!

[EdinburghLegalTheory @EdLegalTheory]

Coming up this week!

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

@Mattjope Tagline for your paper?

[Paul Schofield @pschofie79]

Having people in your life who correctly do not believe in you is under-rated imho

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

@earlymodernjohn I was equally shocked when Turnitin told me that the page numbers 1-8 were already used in a different work!

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

@DrFassnidge @UoE_Philosophy I'm happy to talk about it some other time!

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

Looking forward to hearing the thoughts of legal theorists on the normativity of social norms!

I'm also giving a talk on this paper (not pre-read) at @UoE_Philosophy on the 20th, 11-12:30.

[EdinburghLegalTheory @EdLegalTheory]

We've a new event this month: a WiP session with Eline Gerritsen (@ElineAtSea) of U Hamburg, on her paper 'Questioning the Normative Status of Social Norms'. This is on Thursday next week (21st March) at 3-5pm. If you're not on our mailing list, contact us for details / the paper

[Eline Gerritsen @ElineAtSea]

@RobWhit28130167 @alma_diamond @UoE_Philosophy That's why I make a distinction between formal normativity and authoritative normativity - social norms at least have the former, the question is whether they have the latter. Are they merely prescriptive in form or really binding?