LEADER 03456nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910792323403321 005 20230725023523.0 010 $a1-282-55799-8 010 $a9786612557996 010 $a1-4411-9489-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000019226 035 $a(EBL)533847 035 $a(OCoLC)630543308 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001438652 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12627448 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001438652 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11378427 035 $a(PQKB)10599037 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000426680 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11288262 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000426680 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10390473 035 $a(PQKB)10984606 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC533847 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL533847 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10387228 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL255799 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000019226 100 $a20090714d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRationality and feminist philosophy$b[electronic resource] /$fDeborah K. Heikes 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (185 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum studies in philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-6191-0 311 $a1-4411-6127-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTable 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 327 $a8 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 330 $aRationality and Feminist Philosophy argues that the Enlightenment conception of rationality that feminists are fond of attacking is no longer a live concept. Deborah K. Heikes shows how contemporary theories of rationality are consonant with many feminist concerns and proposes that feminists need a substantive theory of rationality, which she argues should be a virtue theory of rationality. Within both feminist and non-feminist philosophical circles, our understanding of rationality depends upon the concept's history. Heikes traces the development of theories of rationality from Descartes thro 410 0$aContinuum studies in philosophy. 606 $aRationalism 606 $aReason 606 $aFeminist theory 615 0$aRationalism. 615 0$aReason. 615 0$aFeminist theory. 676 $a149/.7 700 $aHeikes$b Deborah K$0859246 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792323403321 996 $aRationality and feminist philosophy$93869410 997 $aUNINA