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Deborah K Heikes 
Rationality, Representation, and Race 

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During the Enlightenment, rationality becomes not a property belonging to all humans but something that one must achieve. This transformation has the effect of excluding non-whites and non-males from the domain of reason. Heikes seeks to uncover the source of this exclusion, which she argues stems from the threat of subjectivism inherent in modern thinking. As an alternative, she considers post-Cartesian reactions of modern representationalism as well as ancient Greek understandings of mind as simply one part of a functionally diverse soul. In the end, she maintains that treating rationality as an evolutionarily situated virtue concept allows for an understanding of rationality that recognizes diversity and that grounds substantive moral concepts.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. What’s the Problem?
2. Representation and Racism
3. Philosophy’s Outward Turn
4. The Origin of Mind
5. The Promise of Virtue
References
Index

Über den Autor

Deborah Heikes is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She is the author of Rationality and Feminist Philosophy and The Virtue of Feminist Rationality.
Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 262 ● ISBN 9781137591715 ● Dateigröße 4.3 MB ● Verlag Palgrave Macmillan UK ● Ort London ● Land GB ● Erscheinungsjahr 2016 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 4885813 ● Kopierschutz Soziales DRM

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