Philosophy by Women (eBook, ePUB)

22 Philosophers Reflect on Philosophy and Its Value
Redaktion: Vintiadis, Elly

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is philosophy, why does it matter, and how would it be different if women wrote more of it? 22 women in philosophy lay out how they think of philosophy, what they actually do and how that is applied to actual problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000203240
• Artikelnr.: 60038564

Autorenporträt

Elly Vintiadis is a philosopher of mind and psychiatry at Deree, the American College of Greece. She has previously taught at the City College of New York and the Hellenic Naval Staff and Command College. Her work focuses mainly on what mental disorders can tell us about the nature of the mind, and on emergence and explanation, but her research also extends to animal ethics and epistemology. Her publications include Brute Facts (2018, coedited with Constantinos Mekios) and Animals and Us (2020, in Greek).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: Thinking about Philosophy 1. Philosophy as a Means of
Empowerment and Self-Advocacy 2. What Is Philosophy and Why Does It
Matter?: A Situated, Pluralist, Social, Caring - and Perhaps Rebellious
Response 3. Does Philosophy Progress? 4. Adventures in Philosophy 5. When
Love Stinks, Call a Conceptual Plumber 6. Moving the Contexts of Philosophy
7. Philosophy, Comedy, and the Need for Good Material 8. Hypatia's Gaze 9.
Philosophy as a Helping Profession? 10. What Philosophy Is and What It
Could Be PART II: Doing and Valuing Philosophy 11. What Is the Philosophy
of Cinema? An Alternative Reading 12. Becoming a Humbler Philosopher: My
Life in Philosophy as a Woman 13. Philosopher Queens? The Wrong Question at
the Wrong Time 14. How Can Philosophy of Language Help Us Navigate the
Political News Cycle? 15. Philosophy as Work 16.
Thinking-Emoting-Reflecting Beyond Love 17. On Doing Philosophy: Territory,
Discipline and Practices 18. The History of Philosophy and Its Disappeared
Women 19. Believing Is Seeing: Feminist Philosophy, Knowledge, and
Perception 20. Philosophy Matters for Children, Children Matter for
Philosophy 21. How Can a (Modern) Greek (Woman) Be a Philosopher?