Louise M Antony
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise M Antony |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise M |
| FAMILY NAME | Antony |
| SIGNATURE | ANTONY L M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Only Natural: Gender, Knowledge, and Humankind
This volume brings together sixteen essays by Louise Antony that reflect her distinctive approach to issues at the intersections of feminist theory, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Antony proceeds from the Quinean precept that we treat knowledge as a natural phenomenon. This approach offers feminists and other progressive theorists vital tools with which to expose and dismantle ideological conceptions of knowledge, h…
A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity
Reality and reduction: What's really at stake in the causal exclusion debate
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Philosophers without gods: Meditations on Atheism and the secular life
Nineteen leading philosophers open a window on the inner life of atheism, shattering common stereotypes as they reveal how they came to turn away from religious belief.
Natures and Norms
Feeling Fine About the Mind
According to a recently developing line in postmodernist feminist theory, contemporary analytic epistemology is fundamentally and irremediably flawed in its failure to take account of' gender.' A strikingly similar attack on contemporary analytic philosophy of mind is mounted by John Searle in The Rediscovery of the Mind. Currently available approaches to the understanding of mental phenomena, Searle charges, are also fundamentally and irremediab…
Mental Causation
Is Psychological Individualism a Piece of Ideology
I analyze and criticize Naomi Scheman's argument for the claim that psychological individualism—the thesis that psychological states are entities or particulars over which psychological theories may quantify—has no legitimate philosophical backing and is instead an element of patriarchal ideology. I conclude that Scheman's argument is flawed and that her thesis is false. Psychological individualism is perfectly compatible with and may even be req…
The Metaphysics of Mind
The Varieties of Reference
Is Psychological Individualism a Piece of Ideology
I analyze and criticize Naomi Scheman's argument for the claim that psychological individualism—the thesis that psychological states are entities or particulars over which psychological theories may quantify—has no legitimate philosophical backing and is instead an element of patriarchal ideology. I conclude that Scheman's argument is flawed and that her thesis is false. Psychological individualism is perfectly compatible with and may even be req…
The Varieties of Reference
The Metaphysics of Mind
Is Psychological Individualism a Piece of Ideology
I analyze and criticize Naomi Scheman's argument for the claim that psychological individualism—the thesis that psychological states are entities or particulars over which psychological theories may quantify—has no legitimate philosophical backing and is instead an element of patriarchal ideology. I conclude that Scheman's argument is flawed and that her thesis is false. Psychological individualism is perfectly compatible with and may even be req…
Mental Causation
Feeling Fine About the Mind
According to a recently developing line in postmodernist feminist theory, contemporary analytic epistemology is fundamentally and irremediably flawed in its failure to take account of' gender.' A strikingly similar attack on contemporary analytic philosophy of mind is mounted by John Searle in The Rediscovery of the Mind. Currently available approaches to the understanding of mental phenomena, Searle charges, are also fundamentally and irremediab…
Natures and Norms
Philosophers without gods: Meditations on Atheism and the secular life
Nineteen leading philosophers open a window on the inner life of atheism, shattering common stereotypes as they reveal how they came to turn away from religious belief.
Reality and reduction: What's really at stake in the causal exclusion debate
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity
Only Natural: Gender, Knowledge, and Humankind
This volume brings together sixteen essays by Louise Antony that reflect her distinctive approach to issues at the intersections of feminist theory, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Antony proceeds from the Quinean precept that we treat knowledge as a natural phenomenon. This approach offers feminists and other progressive theorists vital tools with which to expose and dismantle ideological conceptions of knowledge, h…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Analytic philosophy (3 works) · Contemporary philosophy (3 works) · Naturalism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)