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Rationality and feminist philosophy /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 173 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441194893 1441194894 9781441161918 1441161910 1282557998 9781282557994 9786612557996 6612557990 |