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The Virtue of Feminist Rationality

by Professor Deborah K. Heikes

  • Hardback
  • 218 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

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For scholars and students of feminist philosophy

Challenges traditional views on reason and rationality

You will gain insights into feminist rationality concepts

This book explores a feminist perspective on rationality and reason.

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Feminist philosophers have been some of the most vocal critics of reason and rationality. While most feminists realize that rationality is a concept that cannot be entirely abandoned, few have considered how to construct a positive account of rationality. This book represents a sustained argument for a feminist theory of rationality. It opens by asking the question: is reason inherently masculine? Deborah K. Heikes goes on to answer this question negatively and to examine what feminists actually want from a theory of rationality, specifying what a virtue theory of rationality is and how it works. She identifies those features that feminists believe are central to reason, identifying four dichotomies that are central to feminist thinking (mind/body, reason/emotion, identity/difference, objectivity/subjectivity),and argues that they can be captured by conceiving of rationality as a virtue concept. She further demonstrates how a specifically feminist theory of rationality can provide objective grounds for feminists' moral, political and epistemic agendas.
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  • Author

    Professor Deborah K. Heikes

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    June 2012

  • Weight

    486g

  • Page Count

    218

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781441186577

  • ISBN-10

    1441186573

  • Eden Code

    4639398

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