The Other Philosophy Club: America's First Academic Women Philosophers

Recent research on women philosophers has led to more discussion of the merits of many previously forgotten women in the past several years. Yet due to the fact that a thinker's significance and influence are historical phenomena, women remain relatively absent in “mainstream” discussions of philosophy. This paper focuses on several successful academic women in American philosophy and takes notice of how they succeeded in their own era. Special attention is given to three important academic women philosophers: Mary Whiton Calkins, Ellen Bliss Talbot , and Marietta Kies.     

On A History of Women Philosophers,Vol. I

This book sets higfa standards for itself. Regrettably it fails to meet them: apart from a few displays of thorough and competent research, it is generally based on substandard scholarship.     

"中国哲学"研究的挑战--访陈来教授

陈来,北京大学哲学系教授.1952年8月生于北京,祖籍浙江温州.1976年中南矿冶学院(现名中南大学)地质系毕业.1981年北京大学哲学系研究生毕业后留系任教.1985年获哲学博士学位.1986年被破格提升为副教授,1990年被破格提升为教授.现任北京大学哲学系中国哲学史教研室主任,并任清华大学、武汉大学、香港科技大学兼任教授,全国中国哲学史学会副会长、国际中国哲学会(ISCP)副执行长,国际儒学联合会理事,中国孔子基金会学术委员会副主任.1986-1988年在美国哈佛大学费正清中心担任鲁斯学人作访问研究,1995-1996年为日本东京大学文学部外国人研究员,1997年在美国哈佛大学东亚系任客座教授,1999年在日本关西大学东西学术研究所任特聘研究员,1999-2000年在香港中文大学哲学系任客座教授.     

哲学的挑战与对哲学的挑战

在一次关于人权的电视访谈节目中 ,采访者突然间说道 ,就他所理解 ,我正在建立哲学与酷刑之间的关联 ,并且问我这种关联是什么。我一时语塞。瞬刻间 ,我试图猜度他何以得出如此结论。我的回应是 :哲学与酷刑之间没有任何关联 ,并且 ,当你以哲学 伦理知识看待酷刑事实时 ,你可以认识到 ,正如通常接受的那样 ,酷刑既不伤害也不“侮辱”酷刑受害者的人的尊严 ,例如在构想《禁止酷刑和其他残忍、不人道或有辱人格待遇或处罚公约》这一标题时。酷刑对施以酷刑者的人的尊严造成伤害。我们保护或伤害人的尊严 ,特别是我们自己的人的尊严 ,在于我们…     

The Changing Challenges in the Lives of Three Generations of Professional Women

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Entitlement in Gutting's Epistemology of Philosophy: Comments on What Philosophers Know

In What Philosophers Know, Gary Gutting provides an epistemology of philosophical reflection. This paper focuses on the roles that various intuitive inputs are said to play in philosophical thought. Gutting argues that philosophers are defeasibly entitled to believe some of these, prior to the outcome of the philosophical reflection, and that they then rightly serve as significant (again defeasible) anchors on reflection. This paper develops a view of epistemic entitlement and applies it to argue that many prephilosophical convictions of the kind Gutting discusses would be just the sort of belief for which entitlement would plausibly be defeated from the start. They then could not properly play the role in philosophical reflection that Gutting envisions for them.     

Women Philosophers in the Ancient Greek World: Donning the Mantle

This paper argues that there were women involved with philosophy on a fairly constant basis throughout Greek antiquity. It does so by tracing the lives and where extant the writings of these women. However, since the sources, both ancient and modern, from which we derive our knowledge about these women are so sexist and easily distort our view of these women and their accomplishments, the paper also discusses the manner in which their histories come down to us as well as the histories themselves. It discusses in detail the following women: the Pythagorean women philosophers of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., Aspasia and Diotima of the 5th century B.C., Arete, Hipparchia, Pamphile and the women Epicureans—all from the 4th century B.C. the five logician daughters of a famous Stoic philosopher of the 3rd century B.C., and finally Hypatia who lived in the 4th century A.D.     

Moral Philosophers as Ethical Engineers: Limits of Moral Philosophy and a Pragmatist Alternative

Ever since Kant, moral philosophers have been more or less animated by the mission of discovering inescapable law‐like rules that would provide a binding justification for morality. Recently, however, many have started to question (a) whether this is possible and (b) what, after all, this project could achieve. An alternative vision of the task of moral philosophy starts from the pragmatist idea that philosophizing begins and ends in human experiencing. It leads to a view where morality is seen as a “social technology” that aims to make living together possible, and strengthens people's capability to live a good life within a society. The role of moral philosophy is, accordingly, to develop our moral tools further. Moral philosophers become ethical engineers who use their expertise in ethical topics to criticize existing “moral technology” and construct new concepts, tools, and theories that better answer the current challenges for living a good life.     

Loose Women,Lecherous Men: A Feminist Philosophy of Sex

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Professionalism's Challenges to Professional Counselors' Collective Identity

The authors discuss how attaining various standards of professionalism has inadvertently resulted in challenges to professional counselors' collective identity. The authors reviewed interviews with senior contributors to the profession published in the Journal of Counseling & Development, identifying themes in their comments to suggest potential solutions to helping professional counselors find unity in diversity.