Rationality and feminist philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / Deborah K. Heikes
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| Autore: |
Heikes Deborah K
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| Titolo: |
Rationality and feminist philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / Deborah K. Heikes
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 149/.7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rationalism |
| Reason | |
| Feminist theory | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rationality and feminist philosophy |
| ISBN: | 1-282-55799-8 |
| 9786612557996 | |
| 1-4411-9489-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910792323403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Continuum studies in philosophy.