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Feminist philosophy is an approach to philosophy from a feminist perspective and also the employment of philosophical methods to feminist topics and questions. [1] Feminist philosophy involves both reinterpreting philosophical texts and methods in order to supplement the feminist movement and attempts to criticise or re-evaluate the ideas of ...
The campaign worked toward increasing the representation of women at philosophy conferences and in edited volumes. One of the key statements of the blog was that that "all-male events and volumes help to perpetuate the stereotyping of philosophy as male. This in turn contributes to implicit bias against women in philosophy." The blog closed in ...
Richard Schechner, Essays on Performance Theory, 1976/2004; Arthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art, 1981; Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart, 1990; Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe: On The Foundations of the Representational Arts, 1990
Philosophy of sport is an area of philosophy that seeks to conceptually analyze issues of sport as human activity. These issues cover many areas, but fall primarily into five philosophical categories: metaphysics , ethics and moral philosophy , philosophy of law , political philosophy and aesthetics .
The situated knowledge thesis states that what one is in a position to know depends on one's social identity. The achievement thesis states that one has not achieved a standpoint merely in virtue of having a certain social identity; rather, a standpoint is achieved through a process called consciousness raising. The epistemic privilege thesis ...
With the growth of women's sports and more women's teams being introduced the amount of female coaches shrank. [61] By 1988, looking at Canada specifically, only 14 percent of national level head coaches and assistant coaches were women, [62] an 85:15 ratio is considered skewed. The lack of women in coaching has been understood through many ...
Young begins her essay with a critique of Erwin Straus and his conclusion that differences in movement between men and women are rooted in biology. Straus studied the differences in how young boys and girls each threw a ball, and noted that the boys utilized more physical space and energy to exert their throw, concluding that the differences were due to biological difference.
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (born 1946) is an American philosopher.She is the Emerita George Lynn Cross Research Professor, as well as Emerita Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, at the University of Oklahoma.