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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Opening Plenary: Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy? -- 1. Opening Remarks -- 2. Opening Remarks -- 3. Opening Remarks: Timing Is All -- 4. Discussion -- Part 2: Essence, Identity, and Feminist Philosophy -- 5. Women, Identity, and Philosophy -- 6. The Personal Is Philosophical, or Teaching a Life and Living the Truth: Philosophical Pedagogy at the Boundaries of Self -- 7. Musing as a Feminist and as a Philosopher on a Postfeminist Era -- 8. Essence against Identity -- Part 3: Engendering the Sociopolitical Body -- 9. Feminist Interpretations of Social and Political Thought -- 10. Mothers, Citizenship, and Independence: A Critique of Pure Family Values -- 11. Domestic Abuse and Locke's Liberal (Mis)Treatment of Family -- 12. Marx, Irigaray, and the Politics of Reproduction -- Part 4: Analytic Approaches and Feminist Theory -- 13. The Very Idea of Feminist Epistemology -- 14. Can There Be a Feminist Logic? -- 15. Feminism and Mental Representation: Analytic Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Narrow Content -- 16. Replies to Hass and Golumbia -- Part 5: Feminism beyond Metaphysics? -- 17. Leaping Ahead: Feminist Theory without Metaphysics -- 18. Philosophy Abandons Woman: Gender, Orality, and Some Literate Pre-Socratics -- Notes on Contributors

Contents/Table des matières -- African 'Philosophy': Deconstructive and reconstructive challenges -- African Philosophy: A brief personal history and current debate -- African philosophy in context: A reply to Hountondji's 'Que Peut la Philosophie' -- Myths, symbols and other life-worlds: The limits of empiricism -- The philosophical significance of Bantu nomenclature: A shot at contemporary African philosophy -- The concept of mind with particular reference to the language and thought of the Akans -- Alexis Kagame and Afican socio-linguistics -- Old Gods, new worlds: Some recent work in the philosophy of African traditional religion -- The idea of art in African thought -- Rationalism in the contemporary Arab world -- African philosophy: Its proto-history and future history -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

A comprehensive introduction to political philosophy. Introduces key thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Marx, Mill, Berlin, Rawls and Nozick. Issues discussed include utilitarianism, liberty, rights, justice and democracy.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; I William P. Alston Expressing; II Bruce Aune On the Complexity of Avowals; III S.F. Barker Must Every Inference Be Either Deductive or Inductive?; IV Stanley Cavell Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy; V Thompson Clarke Seeing Surfaces and Physical Objects; VI Marshall Cohen Aesthetic Essence; VII Joel Feinberg Action and Responsibility; VIII Jerry A. Fodor Explanations in Psychology; IX Charles D. Parsons Frege's Theory of Number.