The Virtue of Feminist Rationality by Deborah K Heikes
Provides an assessment of feminist rejections of rationality and a reconstruction of the concept to meet feminist demands. This book represents a sustained argument for a feminist theory of rationality. It opens by asking the question: is reason inherently masculine?-
Analytic Philosophy: The History of an Illusion
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Kierkegaard on Ethics and Religion
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Kierkegaard's Analysis of Radical Evil
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The History of Intentionality
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The Demands of Taste in Kant's Aesthetics
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Kierkegaard on Sin and Salvation
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Rousseau and the Ethics of Virtue
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Descartes and the Doubting Mind
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Kantian Deeds
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Rationality and Feminist Philosophy
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Postanalytic and Metacontinental
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Reconceiving Medical Ethics
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Platonism, Music and the Listener's Share
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Languages of Intentionality
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Kant on Spontaneity
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Difficult Freedom and Radical Evil in Kant
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Re-Thinking the Cogito
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Thomas Aquinas & John Duns Scotus
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The Aesthetic in Kant
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The Challenge of Relativism
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Hegel's Rabble
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Climate Change and Philosophy
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Art, Myth and Society in Hegel's Aesthetics
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Descartes on Innate Ideas
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Hegel's Theory of Recognition
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Kant's Aesthetic Theory
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The Philosophy of Miracles
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Kant's Concept of Genius
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Spinoza and the Stoics
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The Dimensions of Hegel's Dialectic
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St. Augustine and the Theory of Just War
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The Suspension of Reason in Hegel and Schelling
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Hegel and the Analytic Tradition
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Conflict, Power, and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza
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Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art
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Rousseau and Radical Democracy
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Hegel's Philosophy of Language
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Duns Scotus and the Problem of Universals
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Spinoza's Radical Cartesian Mind
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Origins of Analytic Philosophy
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Descartes and the Metaphysics of Human Nature
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Augustine and Roman Virtue
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Objectivity in the Feminist Philosophy of Science
This is a rich and rewarding book which provides aninnovative feminist account of reason as a substantive and normative notionIts argument proceeds within the framework of virtue theory and exploits productivelysome of the dichotomies surrounding the concepts of reason and rationality. Itis a must read for anybody interested in feminism or rationality. -- Alessandra Tanesini, Professor in Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK
The Virtue of Feminist Rationality is an essay on the virtue of reason that takes seriously feminist and post-colonial critiques of Enlightenment rationality,while preserving those elements that are essential to human wisdom in the broadest sense of the term. The book eruditely weaves together historical and contemporary sources on reason and rationality, covering canonical themes and oppositional criticisms, to construct a virtue theory of rationality that denies the dichotomies that historically placed women in subordinate positions.Yet, Heikes insists that rationality is too precious to be abandoned as sexist or reactionary, particularly for feminists and humanists. Her account of reason is of an embodied practice, integrally connected to emotional as well as perceptual experience, that at its most virtuous seeks to be objective, judicious, and pragmatic, yet does not deny its fallibilism. The result is a rich account of reason that can serve our human philosophical quest for wisdom. -- Ann E. Cudd, Professor of Philosophy at University of Kansas, USA
The Virtue of Feminist Rationality is an essay on the virtue of reason that takes seriously feminist and post-colonial critiques of Enlightenment rationality,while preserving those elements that are essential to human wisdom in the broadest sense of the term. The book eruditely weaves together historical and contemporary sources on reason and rationality, covering canonical themes and oppositional criticisms, to construct a virtue theory of rationality that denies the dichotomies that historically placed women in subordinate positions.Yet, Heikes insists that rationality is too precious to be abandoned as sexist or reactionary, particularly for feminists and humanists. Her account of reason is of an embodied practice, integrally connected to emotional as well as perceptual experience, that at its most virtuous seeks to be objective, judicious, and pragmatic, yet does not deny its fallibilism. The result is a rich account of reason that can serve our human philosophical quest for wisdom. -- Ann E. Cudd, Professor of Philosophy at University of Kansas, USA
Deborah K. Heikes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, USA. She is the author of Rationality and Feminist Philosophy (Continuum, 2010).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781441186577 |
| ISBN 10 | 1441186573 |
| Title | The Virtue of Feminist Rationality |
| Author | Deborah K Heikes |
| Series | Continuum Studies In Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2012-06-21 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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