Beyond adaptive preferences
Rethinking women's complicity in their own subordination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21603247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charlotte Knowles (0000-0001-9172-4781, Faculty of Philosophy University of Groningen Groningen the Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1317-1334 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-8373 • E-ISSN: 1468-0378 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ejop.12742 |
| OpenAlex | W3217610747 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 49 |
An important question confronting feminist philosophers is why women are sometimes complicit in their own subordination. The dominant view holds that complicity is best understood in terms of adaptive preferences. This view assumes that agents will naturally gravitate away from subordination and towards flourishing as long as they do not have things imposed on them that disrupt this trajectory. However, there is reason to believe that ‘impositions’ do not explain all of the ways in which complicity can arise. This paper defends a phenomenological account of complicity, which offers an alternative explanation
Complicity · Epistemology · Flourishing · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 2.67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |