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Keya Maitra and Jennifer McWeeny (eds.) Feminist Philosophy of Mind, Oxford University Press, 2022, 396pp., $46.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780190867621.
Reviewed by Marianne Janack, Hamilton College
When my department underwent an external review recently, the reviewers recommended that the department offer a class on feminist philosophy. I was a bit perplexed by this recommendation. After all, most of the members of my department include feminist work in our classes on ethics, critical thinking, environmental philosophy, the self, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, theories of race, epistemology, existentialism, human nature, social and political theory, and philosophy of mind. Most of us see feminist work as integral to these subfields in philosophy. But this is itself a controversial issue: should feminist philosophy be thought of as its own field, encompassing history of philosophy, social and political theory, philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics, etc.? Or should we understand feminist work as occurring under…
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