03453nam 2200709Ia 450 991082429120332120240506183454.01-282-55799-897866125579961-4411-9489-4(CKB)2670000000019226(EBL)533847(OCoLC)630543308(SSID)ssj0001438652(PQKBManifestationID)12627448(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001438652(PQKBWorkID)11378427(PQKB)10599037(SSID)ssj0000426680(PQKBManifestationID)11288262(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426680(PQKBWorkID)10390473(PQKB)10984606(MiAaPQ)EBC533847(Au-PeEL)EBL533847(CaPaEBR)ebr10387228(CaONFJC)MIL255799(EXLCZ)99267000000001922620090714d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRationality and feminist philosophy /Deborah K. Heikes1st ed.London ;New York Continuum20101 online resource (185 p.)Continuum studies in philosophyDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-6191-0 1-4411-6127-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Rationality8 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; WRationality 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 substantive theory of rationality, which she argues should be a virtue theory of rationality. Within both feminist and non-feminist philosophical circles, our understanding of rationality depends upon the concept's history. Heikes traces the development of theories of rationality from Descartes throContinuum studies in philosophy.RationalismReasonFeminist theoryRationalism.Reason.Feminist theory.149/.7Heikes Deborah K859246MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824291203321Rationality and feminist philosophy4000610UNINA