Publisher’s Note: This volume brings together Nussbaum’s published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, explore…
Hipparchia’s Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, Etc
…teach us about the relation of philosophy to experience? Now with a new epilogue, Hipparchia’s Choice points the way toward a discipline that is accountable to history, feminism, and society….
Natural Selection as a Population-Level Causal Process
…statistical, population-level account for an individual-level, causal account of natural selection (Bouchard and Rosenberg [2004]). I argue that each of these positions is right in one way, but wrong in…
Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender
Introduction: Feminism is the movement to end women’s oppression. One possible way to understand ‘woman’ in this claim is to take it as a sex term: ‘woman’ picks out human…
Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century
…of more recent feminist thinkers. The result is a more gender-balanced account of early modern thought than has hitherto been available. Broad’s clear and accessible exploration of this still-unfamiliar area…
The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
…at the University of Berlin, and chaired the Philosophy Department at Howard University for almost four decades. He was perhaps best known as a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance….
Causality and Determination
Summary: A classic text in which Anscombe argues for a realist view of causation. Specifically, Anscombe holds that causation is both directly perceivable and not subject to philosophical analysis. Anscombe…
Truth and Meaning: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language
…technical, it is an accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of semantics, and will provide the ideal basis for a first course in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic….
Are we having sex now or what?
Though sex, and the philosophy of sex, are often serious if not solemn affairs, it pays to approach them with a sense of humor, as Greta Christina demonstrates. The philosophical…
Conventionalism, structuralism and neo-Kantianism in Poincare’s philosophy of science
…synthetic a priori, empirical and conventional elements, which, however, are not chosen arbitrarily. By examining his geometric conventionalism, his hierarchical account of science and defence of continuity in theory change,…