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More women philosophers, more philosophy! reflections from Chile and Mexico
EikasíaAll knowledge is subjectively produced. The feminist theory of situated knowledge highlights the relationship between knowledge and the contextual conditions (historical, cultural, political, economic, &c.) of those who produce it.
Hans Peschke Castillo +1 more
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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FEMALE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
ИстраживањаIn this paper, I discuss an important knowledge gap observed in Greek philosophical research and historiography, which reflects some well-established social circumstances and beliefs: the absence of systematic and extensive research on the theories of ...
VIRGINIA GRIGORIADOU
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Responding to Morally Flawed Historical Philosophers and Philosophies [PDF]
, 2018 Many historically-influential philosophers had profoundly wrong moral views or behaved very badly. Aristotle thought women were “deformed men” and that some people were slaves “by nature.” Descartes had disturbing views about non-human animals.
Abundez-Guerra, Victor F., Nobis, Nathan
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Etudes Epistémè, 2008 As Francis Bacon’s texts show, the use of analogy in the sciences was already both contested and recognized as potentially useful in the XVIIth century.
Sandrine Parageau
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Formation of Feminine Truth in Poststructuralism
Philosophies, 2023 This essay traces the origin of feminine thought in poststructuralism, which opens up new vistas of experience that differ from traditional philosophical thinking based on a conceptual grasp of the world.
Abey Koshy
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African Sage Philosophy and Socrates [PDF]
, 2002 The paper explores the methodology and goals of H. Odera Oruka’s sage philosophy project. Oruka interviewed wise persons who were mostly illiterate and from the rural areas of Kenya to show that a long tradition of critical thinking and philosophizing ...
Presbey, Gail M.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop +3 more
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Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women?
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2017 Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women? Philosophers and policy-makers concerned with the ethics, economics, and politics of development argue that the phenomenon of ‘adaptive preference’ makes preference-utilitarian measures of well-being untenable.
H. E. Baber
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