The Other Feminist Reflections in Ethics

The western philosophical tradition, with its focus on universal concepts and a presumed neuter, but ultimately male subject, has only relatively recently become open to the question of alterity, in particular the alterity of woman as the other of man. The essays of this volume reflect in particular on the ethical implications of taking the feminine other into account. This necessitates a rethinking of the implicit structures of Western philosophy which continue to exclude women as subjects who contribute to the conceptualization of world and society. This volume, which gives voice to women philosophers, is a contribution to that task.

HELEN FIELDING is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She has published articles on Irigaray, Heidegger, Nancy and Merleau-Ponty.   GABRIELLE HILTMANN teaches philosophy at Basel University, Switzerland. Her research interests include methodology, aesthetics, phenomenology, hermeneutics, ontology, meta-ethics, theories of sense and signification, theories of body, soul and mind, interdisciplinarity, interculturality, and feminist philosophy.  DOROTHEA OLKOWSKI is Professor of Philosophy and the former Director of Women's Studies at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.  ANNE REICHOLD is Professor of Philosphy at Flensburg University, Germany. Her research interests are in ethics, applied ethics, phenomenology, analytic philosophy, theories of body and soul, epistemology and personhood.