Join B, John, and guest-host Cody Campbell for an enlightening discussion of the gendered and sexed nature of reason in western philosophy. Dealing with such topics as rationality, the role of embodiment in scientific thought, the project of feminist epistemologists, and the canonicity of the western philosophy canon, this meager assemblage of cisgender white men hopes to reveal the ongoing depths of this classic of feminism, The Man of Reason: ‘Male’ and Female’ in Western Philosophy, by Genevieve Lloyd. Who is a knower? What is knowing? And who gets to decided what constitutes knowing? Is Lloyd reinscribing some of that which she critiques? These are only a few questions we attempt to answer.
We also bring you the second part of our interview with Carol Gould (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at The Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNY) on her forthcoming book, Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice. This selection covers solidarity and empathy, the way Gould takes up feminist care ethics, social movements, and disciplinary boundaries between political theory and political philosophy.
Last but not least, we dispense advice on the social life of an academic and how to find the cool theory events in NYC.
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Links!
- Man of Reason on Google Books
- Lloyd’s homepage at University of New South Wales
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entries on epistemology, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, and scientific realism
- Edited collection of foundational readings on feminist epistemology, edited by Linda Martín Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter
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