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Feminist Philosophy of Religion: Critical Readings

Posted on August 20, 2018December 3, 2024 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s note: Feminist philosophy of religion as a subject of study has developed in recent years because of the identification and exposure of explicit sexism in much of the traditional philosophical thinking about religion. This struggle with a discipline shaped almost exclusively by men has led feminist philosophers to redress the problematic biases of gender, race, class and sexual orientation of the subject. Anderson and Clack bring together new and key writings on the core topics and approaches to this growing field. Each essay exhibits a distinctive theoretical approach and appropriate insights from the fields of literature, theology, philosophy, gender and cultural studies. Beginning with a general introduction, part one explores important approaches to the feminist philosophy of religion, including psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, postmetaphysical, and epistemological frameworks. In part two the authors survey significant topics including questions of divinity, embodiment, autonomy and spirituality, and religious practice. Supported by explanatory prefaces and an extensive bibliography which is organized thematically, Feminist Philosophy of Religion is an important resource for this new area of study.

Posted in Deities and their Attributes, Divination, Faith, and Miracles, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, Religious Development, Experience, and PersonhoodTagged feminist philosophy of religion, feminist theoryLeave a comment

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Posted on August 20, 2018December 3, 2024 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s note: Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, ‘essential’ notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category ‘woman’ and continues in this vein with examinations of ‘the masculine’ and ‘the feminine’. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler’s concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.

Posted in Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, Life Sciences, Personal and Social IdentityTagged feminist philosophy, feminist theory, gender, social constructivismLeave a comment

Responsibility for Implicit Bias

Posted on August 20, 2018December 3, 2024 by Simon Fokt

Introduction: Philosophers who have written about implicit bias have claimed or implied that individuals are not responsible, and therefore not blameworthy, for their implicit biases, and that this is a function of the nature of implicit bias as implicit: below the radar of conscious reflection, out of the control of the deliberating agent, and not rationally revisable in the way many of our reflective beliefs are. I argue that close attention to the findings of empirical psychology, and to the conditions for blameworthiness, does not support these claims. I suggest that the arguments for the claim that individuals are not liable for blame are invalid, and that there is some reason to suppose that individuals are, at least sometimes, liable to blame for the extent to which they are influenced in behaviour and judgment by implicit biases. I also argue against the claim that it is counter-productive to see bias as something for which individuals are blameworthy; rather, understanding implicit bias as something for which we are liable to blame could be constructive.

Posted in Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, MetaethicsTagged blame, implicit bias, responsibility, social philosophyLeave a comment

Feminist Metaethics

Posted on August 20, 2018December 3, 2024 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: Metaethical questions concern the nature of morality: are there moral properties, and, if so, what kind of thing are they? How do they motivate us? How should we understand moral discourse, and how can we gain moral knowledge?

Posted in Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, MetaethicsTagged feminist philosophy, metaethicsLeave a comment

The Idea of God in Feminist Philosophy

Posted on August 20, 2018December 3, 2024 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: The marginal position of women within the Western tradition provides a critical vantage point for feminist redevelopment of the notion of God. Feminists tend to replace the classical categories of substance philosophies traditionally used for God with relational categories often drawn from organic philosophies. They also project the dynamic character of language itself into the discussion of God. This essay focuses on these issues as they are developed by Mary Daly and Rebecca Chopp

Posted in Culture, Deities and their Attributes, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, Metaethics, Religious Development, Experience, and PersonhoodTagged feminism, feminist philosohy of religion, God, non-clasical conceptions of godLeave a comment

Becoming Divine: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Religion

Posted on August 20, 2018December 3, 2024 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s note: “The book’s contribution to feminist philosophy of religion is substantial and original…. It brings the continental and Anglo-American traditions into substantive and productive conversation with each other.” Ellen Armour

To what extent has the emergence of the study of religion in Western culture been gendered? In this exciting book, Grace Jantzen proposes a new philosophy of religion from a feminist perspective. Hers is a vital and significant contribution which will be essential reading in the study of religion.

Posted in Culture, Deities and their Attributes, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, Metaethics, Religious Development, Experience, and PersonhoodTagged feminism, feminist philosophy of religion, religionLeave a comment

Gender and the Infinite: on the Aspiration to be All there Is

Posted on August 20, 2018December 3, 2024 by Simon Fokt

Introduction: In this essay I would like to offer a feminist rethinking of a core topic for a more inclusive philosophy of religion. I advocate a gender-sensitive approach to the topic of the infinite.

Posted in Deities and their Attributes, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, Personal and Social Identity, TheodicyTagged feminist philosophy of religion, gendered conceptions of God., non-classical divine attributes, problem of evilLeave a comment

Feminism and the Problem of Evil

Posted on August 20, 2018December 3, 2024 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: Feminists have challenged the claim that gender is irrelevant to the discussion of evil and suffering in the world. This chapter considers a range of approaches offered by feminists to the problem of evil, suggesting something of the innovation that considering gender issues bring to the discussion of evil. In describing a variety of feminist perspectives, I intend to highlight the way in which feminist theories invariably turn to the practical solutions that might be made to evil and suffering in our world.

Posted in Deities and their Attributes, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, Ontology and Metaontology, Religious Development, Experience, and Personhood, TheodicyTagged feminism, problem of evil, theodicyLeave a comment

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

Posted on August 8, 2018December 3, 2024 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: 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.

Posted in Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, Historiography of PhilosophyTagged American philosophy, history of women philosophers, nineteenth-century philosophyLeave a comment

America’s First Women Philosophers

Posted on August 8, 2018December 3, 2024 by Simon Fokt

Publisher’s Note: The American idealist movement started in St. Louis, Missouri in 1858, becoming more influential as women joined and influenced its development. Susan Elizabeth Blow was well known as an educator and pedagogical theorist who founded the first public kindergarten program in America (1873-1884). Anna C. Brackett was a feminist and pedagogical theorist and the first female principal of a secondary school (St. Louis Normal School, 1863-72). Grace C. Bibb was a feminist literary critic and the first female dean at the University of Missouri, Columbia (1878-84). American idealism took on a new form in the 1880s with the founding of the Concord School of Philosophy in Massachusetts. Ellen M. Mitchell participated in the movement in both St. Louis and Concord. She was one of the first women to teach philosophy at a co-educational college (University of Denver, 1890-92). Lucia Ames Mead, Marietta Kies, and Eliza Sunderland joined the movement in Concord. Lucia Ames Mead became a chief pacifist theorist in the early twentieth century. Kies and Sunderland were among the first women to earn the Ph.D. in philosophy (University of Michigan, 1891, 1892). Kies wrote on political altruism and shared with Mitchell the distinction of teaching at a coeducational institution (Butler College, 1896-99). These were the first American women as a group to plunge into philosophy proper, bridging those years between the amateur, paraprofessional and professional academic philosopher. Dorothy Rogers’s new book at last gives them the attention they deserve.

Posted in Gender, Sex, and Sexuality, Historiography of PhilosophyTagged American philosophy, Hegelianism, history of women philosophers, nineteenth-century philosophyLeave a comment

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