Women in Philosophy

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Credits: 3 Only 21% of professional philosophers are women. Historically, women are missing from the canon due to their exclusion from higher education and due to prevailing stereotypes that women were deprived of rational thought. Nevertheless, women have made important contributions to philosophy. This course engages with important female figures in the history of philosophy, but it also converses with contemporary women philosophers to demonstrate how they reckon with the canon that has been passed down to them. We will ask: why have women been excluded from philosophy? What contributions have women made to philosophical thinking? How have women thought about the mind/body split? What have they said about art, technology, politics, and ethics? Also Listed as: PHL 250