Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Pacifica Christian High School – 20th Street Seminar Room
Lyceum Student Seminar
There has been a lot of controversy recently involving words like gender, sex, male, female, man, and woman. This talk will provide some clarity, by explaining the competing definitions of these terms. We will see how the word gender has several different meanings, which makes it difficult to have clear, productive conversations on these issues. We’ll also consider reasons in favor of the traditional understandings of terms like man and male, according to which men are adult human males, and biological sex is defined in terms of gamete production. Finally, we’ll consider why these issues matter so much to our culture, as well as whether sex is binary, and whether sex change is theoretically possible.
Attendance is by invite only.
Speaker: Tomás Bogardus
Tomás Bogardus earned his BS in biology at UC San Diego, his MA in philosophy at Biola University, and his PhD in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He works mainly in metaphysics and epistemology, and is most interested in the mind-body problem, the rationality of religious belief, and the nature of gender.