Rationality and feminist philosophy /
Rationality and Feminist Philosophy argues that the Enlightenment conception of rationality that feminists are fond of attacking is no longer a live concept. Deborah K. Heikes shows how contemporary theories of rationality are consonant with many feminist concerns and proposes that feminists need a...
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
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| Series: | Continuum studies in philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Part One: Feminist Approaches to Rationality; 1 Introduction: With Good Reason; 2 Musings on the Landscape: Feminism and Rationality; Part Two: Enlightenment Approaches to Rationality; 3 The Good, the Bad, and the Dichotomous: Cartesian Rationality; 4 Instrumentalism on Steroids: Humean Rationality; 5 Reason Only a Father Could Love?: Kantian Rationality; Part Three: Contemporary Approaches to Rationality; 6 Let the Games Begin: Wittgensteinian Rationality; 7 The Unbearable Emptiness of Pure Reason: Evolutionary Rationality.
- 8 We Don't Need No Stinkin' Rules: Virtue RationalityPart Four: Feminist Approaches to Rationality, Revisited; 9 Baby Come Back: Feminists Need Rationality; 10 Virtue is Its Own Reward: Toward a Feminist Theory of Rationality; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.