This paper presents a new view of logical pluralism. This pluralism takes into account how the logical connectives shift, depending on the context in which they occur. Using the Question-Under-Discussion…
Playfulness, “World”-Travelling, and Loving Perception
A paper about cross-cultural and cross-racial loving that emphasizes the need to understand and affirm the plurality in and among women as central to feminist ontology and epistemology. Love is…
The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works
…web of relationships. It also helps reveal who we actually are. It is this form of shifting perspectives that is at the core of impartiality, Maibom argues, and not the…
Civic Education and Social Diversity
…with political liberalism accommodate significantly more social diversity than one guided by comprehensive liberalism? Political liberals claim that it would, and some recommend political liberalism to us largely on this…
Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt on Labor
Comparing the typologies of human activities developed by Beauvoir and Arendt, I argue that these philosophers share the same concept of labor as well as a similar insight that labor…
Citizenship as Identity, Citizenship as Shared Fate, and the Functions of Multicultural Education
…the other side of the same coin to that presented by Shelley Burtt in the previous chapter: according to Williams, the liberal state often demands too much in the way…
Is the Feminist Critique of Reason Rational?
Recent criticism of feminist philosophy poses a dilemma. Feminism is taken to be a substantive set of empirical claims and political commitments, whereas philosophy is taken to be a discipline…
Making Pacifism Plausible
The ethics of war is a minefield. It is a morass of conceptual unclarity, contentious assumptions, impassioned arguments, unexploded myths, and the injured defenders of indistinct positions. My aim is…
Norms and Neuroscience: The Case of Borderline Personality Disorder
Cognitive neuroscience can offer us new explanations of episodes human behavior that, unlike many explanations traditionally available, do not draw on questionable past theories arising from cultures and traditions that…
Queer feminist logic and contradictions: Or how logic and feminism can be relevant to each other
…phenomena. Upon this assumption, I want to inves-tigate possible applications of queer feminist views on (philosophy of) logic with respect to a very specific group, namely contradictory logics, i.e., logical…