Feminist Philosophy

Catalog description

Feminist philosophy is a field of inquiry that challenges traditional answers to and proposes competing answers to central questions in a variety of philosophical subfields, such as ethics, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, among others. It does so on the grounds that oppression and privileges, conceptions of gender, and women's lives deserve philosophical consideration and may change the way that we understand philosophical problems. This course will introduce students to the variety of views in feminist philosophy or it will focus on a particular set of philosophical arguments within one subfield. Crosslisted with WS 4307 .