Is biological sex binary? This question will be explored in an academic debate between Tomás Bogardus from Pepperdine University and Agustín Fuentes from Princeton University on Friday, March 6 at 4:15 p.m. in the Roselle Center of the Arts, Gore Rectial Hall.

Tomás Bogardus is Professor of Philosophy at Pepperdine University. 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 and sex. He is the author of many articles and of The Nature of the Sexes: Why Biology Matters (Routledge, 2025).

Agustín Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. He specializes in biological and evolutionary anthropology with interests in sex and gender, multispecies relations and race and racism. He is the author of many articles, and his books include Evolution of Human Behavior (Oxford, 2009), Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being (Yale University Press, 2019), and Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary (Princeton University Press, 2025).

Reception to follow in the lobby of the Roselle Center for the Arts. This event is free and open to the public.

This spring’s academic debate is hosted by the Philosophy, Women & Gender Studies, and Anthropology departments with financial support from the Class of 1955 Ethics Endowment Fund.