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216The Context Principle and Dummett's Argument for Anti-realismTheoria 71 (2): 92-117. 2005.Dummettian anti-realism–the refusal to endorse bivalence–is generally thought to be associated with idealism This paper argues that this is only true of the position developed by early Dummett. In a later manifestation Dummettian anti-realism is better thought of as providing the logic for anti-realisms of an error theoretic kind. Early on Dummett distinguished deep from shallow arguments for giving up bivalence: deep arguments followed a strong ‘sufficiency’ reading of Frege’s context principle…Read more
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From Le Miroir des dames to Le Livre des trois vertusIn Karen Green & Mews Constant J. (eds.), Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1550, Springer. 2011.
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2Marilyn Friedman and Jan Narveson, Political Correctness: For and Against Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 15 (4): 241-243. 1995.
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763What Were the Ladies in the City of Ladies Reading? The Libraries of Christine de Pizan’s ContemporariesMedievalia Et Humanistica 36 77-100. 2010.Argues that there is little reason to assume that Christine de Pizan had access to the royal library in the Louvre prior to 1403 and that the majority of her sources were available in the libraries of women who were her contemporaries and who are mentioned in her works. A table of the books owned by important royal women mentioned by Christine is provided.
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116When is a contract theorist not a contract theorist? Mary Astell and Catharine Macaulay as critics of Thomas HobbesIn Nancy Hirschmann Joanne Wright (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes, Penn State. pp. 169-89. 2012.Although Catharine Macaulay was a contract theorist and early feminist her philosophy is not based on a concept of liberty like that of Hobbes, but on a notion of individual liberty as self government close to that accepted by Mary Astell. This raises the question of whether criticisms of liberal feminism which assume that it is rooted in Hobbes's suspect notion of freedom and consent may miss there mark.
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11Review of Engaging with Irigaray ed. Carolyn Burke, Naomi Shor and Margaret Whitford (review)International Studies in Philosophy 31. 1999.
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78Liberty and Virtue in Catherine Macaulay's Enlightenment PhilosophyIntellectual History Review 22 (3): 411-426. 2012.Argues that like more conservative feminist writers, Gabrielle Suchon and Mary Astell, writing earlier in the Eighteenth Century, Macaulay's concept of liberty is closely tied to virtue and involves free self government according to reason. Unlike these earlier writers from this concept of liberty she deduces the rationality of democratic republican government. Thus the grounds on which she builds her republicanism involve a very different concept of rational self interest to that usually assume…Read more
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75Dummett: philosophy of languagePolity Press. 2001.Dummett's output has been prolific and highly influential, but not always as accessible as it deserves to be. This book sets out to rectify this situation.
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112A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700–1800Cambridge University Press. 2014.During the eighteenth century, elite women participated in the philosophical, scientific, and political controversies that resulted in the overthrow of monarchy, the reconceptualisation of marriage, and the emergence of modern, democratic institutions. In this comprehensive study, Karen Green outlines and discusses the ideas and arguments of these women, exploring the development of their distinctive and contrasting political positions, and their engagement with the works of political thinkers s…Read more
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235Prostitution, Exploitation and TabooPhilosophy 64 (250). 1989.It is so generally accepted that prostitution is immoral, that this is one of the least discussed of all ethical issues. Few serious philosophical treatments of the subject have been published. Of these, at least one, Lars Ericsson's, ‘Charges against Prostitution’, throws into stark relief the apparent inconsistency of our community attitudes. For it demonstrates that, from the point of view of the simple free market liberalism, to which many subscribe, there is nothing immoral about prostituti…Read more
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Isolated individual or member of a Feminine Courtly Community? Christine de Pizan’s milieuIn Constant J. Mews & Crossley John (eds.), Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe 1100-1500, Brepols Publishers. 2011.
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52The woman of reason: feminism, humanism, and political thoughtContinuum. 1995.This is a timely re-appraisal of feminist political thinkers and their male contemporaries, providing a re-evaluation of feminist humanism.
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119Psychologism and anti-realismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 64 (4). 1986.This Article does not have an abstract
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170Freud, Wollstonecraft, and EcofeminismEnvironmental Ethics 16 (2): 117-134. 1994.I examine recent arguments to the effect that there are significant logical, conceptual, historical, or psychosexual connections between the subordination of women and the subordination of nature and argue that they are all problematic. Although there are important connections between women’s emancipation and the achievement of important environmental goals, they are practical connections rather than conceptual ones.
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88Was Searle's Descriptivism Refuted?Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 17 (1): 109-13. 1998.It is generally thought that Searle 's cluster theory of the sense of a proper name was soundly refuted by Kripke in Naming and Necessity. This paper challenges this widespread belief and argues that the observations made by Kripke do not show that Searle 's version of descriptivism is false. Indeed, charitably interpreted, Searle 's theory retains considerable plausibility
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150Rousseau's womenInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 4 (1). 1996.Abstract Feminists have interpreted Rousseau's attitudes to women as characteristic of a patriarchal ideology in which passion, nature and love are associated with the feminine and repressed in favour of masculine reason, culture and justice. Yet this reading does not cohere with Rousseau's adulation of nature, nor with the repression of writing and culture in favour of natural speech which Derrida finds in his texts. This paper uses Rousseau's accounts of his personal experiences to resolve thi…Read more
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66Logical renovations: restoring Frege's functionsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 73 (4): 315-334. 1992.Argues that because Frege's semantic ideas were introduced into analytic philosophy of language by Russell and Carnap the general understanding of his distinction between sense and reference has been severely misrepresented.
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