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Philosophical Women: the Pathbreakers
Philosophical Women: the Pathbreakers The Women are Up to Something is a book title lifted from a remark made by a male philosopher who anticipated trouble from one of the women philosophers at Oxford. The occasion at which the trouble … Continue reading
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Tagged A. J. Ayer's Language Truth and Logic, Anschulss, Benjamin Lipscomb's The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe Philippa Foot Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics, brilliant women, Catholic convert, criterion of meaningfulness, death camp film footage, Donald MacKinnon, English universities, facts and values, feeling as feminine, females at Oxford, gendered play, Holocaust and history, intellectual drama, intellectual universe, logical positivism, lovers of wisdom, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, male intellect, male philosophers, masculine habits of speech, masculine social reality, meaninglessness, microscopic billiard balls, Oxford honorees, Oxford University, philosophical bestseller, philosophical boundaries, philosophical nonsense, the verification principle, The Vienna Circle, thought as masculine, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, upholding standards, value neutral bits of matter, value neutral components, virtue ethics, virtue ethics and World War II, wartime broken lives, women making trouble, women philosophers, women's insignificance
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Put-Downs
Put-Downs More than one accomplished male philosopher I know has confessed, in a let-your-hair-down moment, to having lived for years in fear of the moment when the world would discover the Total Fraud he really was and get him Unmasked. … Continue reading
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