| PHIL 169 --
Feminism and Philosophy Fall 2019 |
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| Professor:
Clinton Tolley office: HSS 8018 hours: tbd email: ctolley [at] ucsd.edu |
Teaching Assistant:
tbd office: hours: tbd email: tbd |
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| Time:
Tu/Th 2:00pm-3:20pm Location: Warren Lecture Hall 2115 [map] |
| {pdfs of readings will be
made available on the course's TED page} |
| Our course
will provide a survey of the history of the incorporation
of feminism and feminist theory within philosophy, as well
as an overview of more recent discussions of the
relationship between feminism and core areas of
philosophy. We will begin by reading selections from some of the more influential contributions to feminism in the history of philosophy before the mid-20th century, by Christine de Pizan, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alexandra Kollontai, and Simone de Beauvoir. We will then turn to the complicated inheritance of these classical works by more recent authors (1970s-present) involved in ongoing debates concerning the relationship between feminism and the traditional areas within philosophy, including: ontology, epistemology, phenomenology, ethics, politics, social theory, aesthetics and the philosophy of culture, and the question of the nature of philosophy itself. One goal of the course will be to introduce and critically engage with the wide variety of philosophical questions that have arisen in the course of the emergence of feminism as a social and intellectual movement. Another will be to explore the wide variety of philosophical traditions and approaches that have actively taken up these questions over the past century. A third will be to begin to formulate (by the conclusion of the course) an assessment of the problems and prospects for future work in feminism in philosophy, in the philosophy of feminism, and for feminism itself as a social and political movement. |
| {tentative} * weekly reading/lecture questionnaires * weekly discussion posts * final paper * attendance * participation |
| {tentative} week 1: Christine de Pizan; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz week 2: Mary Wollstonecraft; Alexandra Kollontai week 3: Simone de Beauvoir; Shulamith Firestone week 4: Judith Thomson; Iris Marion Young week 5: Angela Davis; Maria Lugones, Elizabeth Spelman week 6: Susan Okin; Claudia Card week 7: Catherine MacKinnon; Kate Manne week 8: Judith Butler; Talia Mae Bettcher week 9: Hilde Hein; Mary Devereaux week 10: Elizabeth Anderson; Alison Stone |
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online
encyclopedia entries (Stanford Enc unless otherwise
noted)
feminist philosophy (overview) feminist history of philosophy |