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owl_of_minerva

Quotation for the day

Sep 09, 2007 15:48

From Naomi Scheman, "Feminism in Philosophy of Mind," in The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, ed. Miranda Fricker & Jennifer Hornsby (Cambridge UP 2000), pp. 52-53:

Disputes among feminist theorists frequently take the following form: theorists of type A argue against the appeal to absolute standards of truth or rightness that exist ( Read more... )

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Comments 5

uberconfused September 9 2007, 20:11:58 UTC

oh my god, your icon... it's beautiful! can I borrow it?

owl_of_minerva September 9 2007, 20:22:44 UTC

Absolutely!

eve_prime September 9 2007, 20:26:51 UTC

Great quote. (Says the empiricist-particularist.)

sevenjades September 10 2007, 03:15:22 UTC

Well said. Although I wish the tension didn't have to be there - if indeed it has to.

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owl_of_minerva September 21 2007, 19:29:52 UTC

Hi there! Great icon! No -- I'm on the East Coast. "Owl of Minerva" in philosophy is usually a reference to Hegel's line from the "Preface" the Philosophy of Right -- "the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk" -- referring to how philosophy is always just trying to catch up to culture in trying to understand it. It's pretty common now as a general reference to philosophy.

Best,
Owl