Philosophy for girls : an invitation to the life of thought / edited by Melissa M. Shew and Kimberly K. Garchar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garchar, Kimberly K., editor.

Shew, Melissa M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 289 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Invitation to the life of thought

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Written by 20 expert women in philosophy and representing a diverse and pluralistic approach to philosophy as a discipline, this text engages girls and women ages 16 to 24, as well as university and high school educators and students who want a change from standard anthologies that include few or no women. The work is divided into four sections that correspond to major fields in philosophy - metaphysics, epistemology, social and political philosophy, and ethics - but the chapters within those sections provide fresh ways of understanding those fields.

Contents:

Prologue. Persephone : the invitation / Melissa M. Shew

Introduction / Melissa M. Shew, Kimberly K. Garchar

Section I: Self. Identity : being-in-the-world and becoming / Meena Dhanda

Autonomy : on being true to ourselves / Serene J. Khader

Pride : the complexities of virtue and vice / Claudia Mills

Questions : the heart of philosophy / Melissa M. Shew

Self-knowledge : the importance of reflection / Karen Stohr

Section II: Knowing. Logic : a feminist approach / Gillian Russell

Doubt : knowing and skepticism / Julianne Chung

Science : unmasking objectivity / Subrena E. Smith

Technology : experience and mediated realities / Robin L. Zebrowski

Art : seeing, thinking, making / Patricia M. Locke

Section III: Social structure and power relations. Credibility : resisting doubts, reimagining knowledge / Monica C. Poole

Language : power plays in communication / Elisabeth Camp

Race : the ontological crisis of the human / Shannon Winnubst

Gender : to the binary and beyond / Charlotte Witt

Recognition : living a queer-alien-mixed consciousness / Shanti Chu

Section IV: Contemplation in action. Anger : embracing the Medusa trope as an act of resistance / Myisha Cherry

Consciousness-raising : social groups and change / Tabatha Leggett

Tzedek : doing what must be done / Devora Shapiro

Empathy : entangled human and nonhuman relationships / Lori Gruen

Courage : meliorism in motion / Kimberly K. Garchar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-007294-6

0-19-007295-4

0-19-007293-8