Contextualism and the Semantics of "Woman"

Contextualist accounts of “woman,” including Saul (2012), Diaz-Leon (2016), and Ichikawa (2020), aim to capture the variability meaning term, do justice rights trans women. I argue that (i) there is an internal tension between a contextualist stance commitment trans-inclusive language, (ii) we should recognize tackle broader deeper theoretical practical difficulties implicit in semantic debates, rather than collapsing them all into semantics. Moving on, sketch three strategies help us advance feminist philosophical endeavors, how attending contextual matters can lead further reflect on meta-contextual, such as our role shaping contexts whether working language indicative larger oppressive social structure.