Representing reason : feminist theory and formal logic / edited by Rachel Joffe Falmagne and Marjorie Hass.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falmagne, Rachel Joffe.

Hass, Marjorie, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

viii, 243 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2002]

Summary:

Philosophy's traditional "man of reason" -- independent, neutral, unemotional -- is an illusion. That's because the "man of reason" ignores one very important thing -- the woman.

As feminist philosophy grew in the 1980s and '90s, it became clear that the attributes philosophical tradition wrote off as "womanly" are in fact part of human nature. No longer can philosophy maintain the dichotomy between the rational man and the emotional woman, but must now examine a more complex human being, able to reason and feel. Yet feminist philosophy also makes it clear that men and women theorize the world in different ways, from different perspectives. Representing Reason: Feminist Theory and Formal Logic collects new and old essays that shed light on the under-explored intersection of logic and feminism.

Contents:

Introduction: Representing Reason: Feminist Theory and Formal Logic / Marjorie Hass, Rachel Joffe Falmagne 1

Part 1 Logic and The Structure of Thought

Chapter 1 The Politics of Reason: Toward a Feminist Logic / Val Plumwood 11

Chapter 2 Feminism and the Logic of Alterity / Val Plumwood 45

Chapter 3 Fluid Thinking: Irigaray's Critique of Formal Logic / Marjorie Hass 71

Chapter 4 "Power in the Service of Love": John Dewey's Logic and the Dream of a Common Language / Carroll Guen Hart 89

Chapter 5 Words of Power and the Logic of Sense / Dorothea E. Olkowski 117

Part 2 Logic and Empirical Knowledge

Chapter 6 On Mapping a Transdisciplinary Approach to Reasoning / Rachel Joffe Falmagne, Marie-Genevieve Iselin 133

Chapter 7 Logic from a Quinean Perspective: An Empirical Enterprise / Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Jack Nelson 169

Chapter 8 Saying What It Is: Predicate Logic and Natural Kinds / Andrea Nye 191

Chapter 9 "What Do Girls Know Anyway?": Rationality, Gender, and Social Control / Pam Oliver 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0847696685

0847696693

OCLC:

49823299