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Virtue of feminist rationality /
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 fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Publishing,
2012.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 wor. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441188809 1441188800 1280579536 9781280579530 9781441191632 1441191631 |