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Women of color and philosophy : a critical reader
- Title
- Women of color and philosophy : a critical reader / edited by Naomi Zack.
- Publication
- Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | B105.W6 W64 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Zack, Naomi, 1944-
- Description
- xi, 320 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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 women." "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 to changes in the field that many readers will recognize as inevitable and overdue." "Despite its breadth, Women of Color and Philosophy examines assumption and new directions, in depth and with lucid specificity. This collection can be read as a challenge to the field as well as a forum for its smallest minority, as reassurance and encouragement for the independent thinkers from the center to the periphery."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-310) and index.
- Contents
- "Discredited knowledge" in the nonfiction of Toni Morrison / Joy James -- Cultural alterity : cross-cultural communication and feminist theory in North-South contexts / Ofelia Schutte -- Exploring the sources of western thought / V.F. Cordova -- General introduction to the project : the enterprise of Socratic metaethics / Adrian M.S. Piper -- Interview with Angela Y. Davis / George Yancy -- That alchemical Bering Strait theory! or Introducing America's Indigenous Sovereign Nations worldviews to informal logic courses / Anne Schulherr Waters -- Libertarian role model and the burden of uplifting the race / Barbara Hall -- Interracial marriage : folk ethics in contemporary philosophy / Anita L. Allen -- Asian women : invisibility, locations, and claims to philosophy / Yoko Arisaka -- On judging epistemic credibility : is social identity relevant? / Linda Martin Alcoff -- Cognitive science and the quest for a theory of properties / Dasiea Cavers-Huff -- Descartes' realist awake-asleep distinction, and naturalism / Naomi Zack.
- ISBN
- 0631218661
- 9780631218661
- 0631218653
- 9780631218654
- LCCN
- 99056766
- OCLC
- ocm42812956
- 42812956
- SCSB-9441393
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library