A Mind of One's Own

In this collection, 13 women philosophers, including Margaret Atherton, Annette C. Baier, Jean Hampton, Barbara Herman, Helen E. Longino, and Robin May Schott, "explore with skill, imagination, sophistication, and depth the values and disvalues for feminism of traditional and nontraditional conceptions of reason and objectivity" (Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin). Lightning Print On Demand Title

Louise Antony is professor of philosophy at Ohio State University. Her research and teaching interests are in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, the foundations of cognitive science, and feminist theory. Charlotte Witt is professor and chair of philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. Her teaching and research interests are in ancient philosophy and feminist theory. She is the author of Substance and Essence in Aristotle.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Feminism and Aristotle's Rational Ideal	p. 1
Notes	p. 15
Cartesian Reason and Gendered Reason	p. 19
Notes	p. 32
Hume: The Reflective Women's Epistemologist?	p. 35
Notes	p. 47
Could It Be Worth Thinking About Kant on Sex and Marriage?	p. 49
Notes	p. 65
Maleness, Metaphor, and the ""Crisis"" of Reason	p. 69
Notes	p. 83
On Being Objective and Being Objectified	p. 85
Notes	p. 115
Generalizing Gender: Reason and Essence in the Legal Thought of Catharine Mackinnon	p. 127
Notes	p. 140
Though This Be Method, Yet There is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology	p. 145
Notes	p. 166
Resurrecting Embodiment: Toward a Feminist Materialism	p. 171
Notes	p. 180
Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology	p. 185
Notes	p. 219
Feminist Contractarianism	p. 227
Notes	p. 251
Essential Tensions -- Phase Two: Feminist, Philosophical, and Social Studies of Science	p. 257
Notes	p. 270
Feminist Metaphysics	p. 273
Notes	p. 286
About the Book	p. 289
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 291
Index	p. 293
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