Women philosophers

by Mary Warnock and Hary Warnock

Book Overview

This selection consists of extracts from writings of women concerned solely with the pursuit of abstract ideas, historically contextualized. The texts, for the most part, reflect issues widely debated... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0460877380
• ISBN13: 9780460877381
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: J.M. Dent
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

EXCELLENT OVERVIEW OF THE WORK OF 17 WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS

Mary Warnock's book contains an excellent survey of seventeen women philosophers: Anne Conway, Catherine Cockburn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, Lady Welby, Mary Whiton Calkins, L. Susan Stebbing, Suzanne K. Langer, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, G.E.M. Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Onora O'Neill, and Susan Haack. Warnock's book is unusual in such collections for her emphasis on CONTEMPORARY (often still-living) philosophers. Her book is filled with historical insights: e.g., "Anne Conway's work was known to Leibniz and admired by him." Warnock's comments on individual philosophers are of great interest: e.g., L. Susan Stebbing is "a most remarkable person, the first woman professor of philosophy in Britain"; de Beauvoir "wrote only two philosophical works," including her The Ethics Of Ambiguity; Anscombe is described as "the undoubted giant among women philosophers, a writer of immense breadth, authority and penetration." This is a fascinating and very useful volume.