Women of Color and Philosophy A Critical Reader

Name: Women of Color and Philosophy A Critical Reader
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ISBN: 9780631218661

ISBN-10: 0631218661

ISBN-13: 9780631218661

Edition: 2000

Authors: Naomi Zack

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Philosophy is in its fourth millennium but this collection is the first of its kind. Twelve contemporary women of color who are American academic philosophers consider the methods and subjects of the discipline from perspectives partly informed by their experiences as African American, Asian American, Latina, Mixed Race and Native American. The essays represent the authors' views on a wide range of topics: community, epistemology and social identity, alterity, metaphysics, rationalist ethics, loyalty, intellectual history, and realism. The writing is without jargon and the methods of argument will be familiar to traditional philosophers. The ideas, interpretations and suggestions give voice…

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List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.05" long x 0.99" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



The Contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Critique



"Discredited Knowledge" in the Nonfiction of Toni Morrison




Cultural Alterity




Exploring the Sources of Western Thought




General Introduction to the Projec: The Enterprise of Socratic Metaethics




Activism and Application



Interview with Angela




That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory! or Introducing America's Indigenous Sovereign Nations Worldviews to Informal Logic Courses




The Libertarian Role Model and the Burden of Uplifting the Race




Interracial Marriage: Folk-Ethics in Contemporary Philosophy




New Directions



Asian Women: Invisibility, Locations, and Claims to Philosophy




On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant?




Cognitive Science and the Quest for a Theory of Properties




Descartes' Realist Awake-Asleep Distinction, and Naturalism



Select Bibliography


Index