Why has no one told me…
About Sally Haslinger?
Okay, so that’s not true–I’ve heard her name in various feminist blogger conversations. However, I never once read any of her papers during my master’s degree program. I’m in the middle of her article “What Good are Our Intuitions?” in the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume: Philosophical Analysis and Social Kinds pages 89-118.
Excellent, clear stuff–what I wish I had read before my series on race and emptiness. It confirms, clarifies and challenges my initial thoughts about social constructionism and concept analysis. Thing is, though her discussion is relevant to feminism, gender, etc., it’s also crucial for meta-philosophy, understanding what we’re doing when we analyze concepts! I think that someone should take aside all of the first-year master’s or PhD philosophy students that are female (though the guys should read her, too) and make them read Haslinger and Nussbuam. If nothing else, it will help your writing style and ability to do clear and subtle philosophy.
I wish someone told me years ago that feminists could write like them (and not Judith Butler).
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