Philosophy Without Women

Philosophy Without Women
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9781441153722
ISBN-13 : 1441153721
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Philosophy Without Women by : Vigdis Songe-Møller

For most of its history, western philosophy has regarded woman as an imperfect version of man. Like so many aspects of western culture, this tradition builds on foundations laid in ancient Greece. Yet the first philosophers of antiquity were hardly agreed on first principles. Songe-M°ller shows how the Greeks made intellectual choices that would prove fateful for half of humankind.

An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy

An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 572
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ISBN-10 : 9780742559240
ISBN-13 : 0742559246
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy by : Karen Warren

The historical exclusion of women's voices has diminished academic disciplines, including philosophy. In this groundbreaking new account of Western philosophy throughout the past 2,600 years, Karen J. Warren has paired sixteen women philosophers along-side their historical male contemporaries in conversations on philosophy. An overview essay, together with chapter introductions, primary readings, and expert commentaries, offer a rich description and evaluation of each philosopher's vital contributions to Western philosophy. Book jacket.

Women in Philosophy

Women in Philosophy
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9780199325627
ISBN-13 : 0199325626
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Women in Philosophy by : Katrina Hutchison

Despite its place in the humanities, the career prospects and numbers of women in philosophy much more closely resemble those found in the sciences and engineering. This book collects a series of critical essays by female philosophers pursuing the question of why philosophy continues to be inhospitable to women and what can be done to change it. By examining the social and institutional conditions of contemporary academic philosophy in the Anglophone world as well as its methods, culture, and characteristic commitments, the volume provides a case study in interpretation of one academic discipline in which women's progress seems to have stalled since initial gains made in the 1980s. Some contributors make use of concepts developed in other contexts to explain women's under-representation, including the effects of unconscious biases, stereotype threat, and micro-inequities. Other chapters draw on the resources of feminist philosophy to challenge everyday understandings of time, communication, authority and merit, as these shape effective but often unrecognized forms of discrimination and exclusion. Often it is assumed that women need to change to fit existing institutions. This book instead offers concrete reflections on the way in which philosophy needs to change, in order to accommodate and benefit from the important contribution women's full participation makes to the discipline.

Excluded Within

Excluded Within
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780190625986
ISBN-13 : 0190625988
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Excluded Within by : Sina Kramer

Why are some claims seen or heard as political claims, while others are not? Why are some people not seen or heard as political agents? And how does their political unintelligibility shape political bodies, and the terms of political agency, from which they are excluded? In this groundbreaking book, Sina Kramer uses the framework of constitutive exclusion to describe the phenomenon of internal exclusion -- exclusions that occur within a political body. More specifically, constitutive exclusions occur when a system of thought or a political body defines itself by excluding some difference (based on gender, race, class, sexuality, etc.) that is considered intolerable to the boundaries that comprise the body or system's political worth. This exclusion is not absolute, but preserves the very difference it seeks to repress in order to define itself against what it is not. Yet, as Kramer argues, if those who are excluded contest their repression, their political claims are deemed threatening and criminal. But can we ever be without constitutive exclusions? And can we avoid reinscribing them through critique? Kramer ultimately argues that to do justice to the excluded, to render those claims intelligible as political claims, instead requires the reconstitution of the political body on new terms. Importantly, this book offers both a diagnosis and a critique of the concept of constitutive exclusion, articulating what counts as a political action and who counts as a political agent. Kramer takes up a range of cases -- including those of Antigone, Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and the Black Lives Matter movement -- to better understand who counts as a political actor, and how we understand political belonging and the contestation of exclusion. Excluded Within articulates who we are by virtue of who we exclude, and what claims we cannot see, hear, or understand.

Women of Color and Philosophy

Women of Color and Philosophy
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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 0631218653
ISBN-13 : 9780631218654
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Women of Color and Philosophy by : Naomi Zack

Philosophy is in its fourth millennium but this collection is the first of its kind. Twelve contemporary women of color who are American academic philosophers consider the methods and subjects of the discipline from perspectives partly informed by their experiences as African American, Asian American, Latina, Mixed Race and Native American.

Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy

Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781136819360
ISBN-13 : 1136819363
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy by : Sabina Lovibond

Iris Murdoch was one of the best-known philosophers and novelists of the post-war period. In this book, Sabina Lovibond explores the tangled issue of Murdoch's stance towards gender and feminism, drawing upon the evidence of her fiction, philosophy, and other public statements. As well as analysing Murdoch's own attitudes, Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy is also a critical enquiry into the way we picture intellectual, and especially philosophical, activity. Appealing to the idea of a 'social imaginary' within which Murdoch's work is located, Lovibond examines the sense of incongruity or dissonance that may still affect our image of a woman philosopher, even where egalitarian views officially hold sway. The first thorough exploration of Murdoch and gender, Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy is a fresh contribution to debates in feminist philosophy and gender studies, and essential reading for anyone interested in Murdoch's literary and philosophical writing.

Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy

Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9780253216731
ISBN-13 : 0253216737
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy by : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Proceedings of a conference held Feb. 25-26, 2001 at Arizona State University.

The Wrong of Injustice

The Wrong of Injustice
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780190601089
ISBN-13 : 0190601086
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Wrong of Injustice by : Mari Mikkola

The book offers a feminist examination of contemporary social injustices. It argues for a paradigm-shift away from feminist philosophy organized around the gender concept woman, and towards humanist feminism. The book further develops a notion of dehumanization that explicates social injustices, elucidates humanist feminism, and improves non-feminist analyses of injustice.

A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex

A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 413
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ISBN-10 : 9780226779232
ISBN-13 : 0226779238
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex by : Gabrielle Suchon

During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632–1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women’s freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon’s writing from two works—Treatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments (1700)—and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical and moral thinker and writer. Suchon argues that both women and men have inherently similar intellectual, corporeal, and spiritual capacities, which entitle them equally to essentially human prerogatives, and she displays her breadth of knowledge as she harnesses evidence from biblical, classical, patristic, and contemporary secular sources to bolster her claim. Forgotten over the centuries, these writings have been gaining increasing attention from feminist historians, students of philosophy, and scholars of seventeenth-century French literature and culture. This translation, from Domna C. Stanton and Rebecca M. Wilkin, marks the first time these works will appear in English.

The Women Are Up to Something

The Women Are Up to Something
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 361
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ISBN-10 : 9780197541074
ISBN-13 : 0197541070
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Women Are Up to Something by : Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb

Résumé éditeur : This book tells two intertwined stories, centered on twentieth-century moral philosophers Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch. The first is the story of four friends who came up to Oxford together just before WWII. It is the story of their lives, loves, and intellectual preoccupations; it is a story about women trying to find a place in a man's world of academic philosophy. The second story is about these friends' shared philosophical project and their unintentional creation of a school of thought that challenged the dominant way of doing ethics. That dominant school of thought envisioned the world as empty, value-free matter, on which humans impose meaning. This outlook treated statements such as “this is good” as mere expressions of feeling or preference, reflecting no objective standards. It emphasized human freedom and demanded an unflinching recognition of the value-free world. The four friends diagnosed this moral philosophy as an impoverishing intellectual fad. This style of thought, they believed, obscured the realities of human nature and left people without the resources to make difficult moral choices or to confront evil. As an alternative, the women proposed a naturalistic ethics, reviving a line of thought running through Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas, and enriched by modern biologists like Jane Goodall and Charles Darwin. The women proposed that there are, in fact, moral truths, based in facts about the distinctive nature of the human animal and what that animal needs to thrive."