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1 online resource (ix, 173 pages) |
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Continuum studies in philosophy |
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Continuum studies in philosophy.
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-170) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Rationalism.
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Reason.
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Feminist theory.
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rationalism (philosophy)
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reason.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Rationalism.
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Feminist theory
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Rationalism
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Reason
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009028819 |
| ISBN |
9781441194893 |
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1441194894 |
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9781441161918 |
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1441161910 |
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1282557998 |
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9781282557994 |
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9786612557996 |
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6612557990 |
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