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Shared Communities of Interest: Feminism and Pragmatism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Abstract

This essay introduces some of the many interests, methodologies, and goals that the philosophical tradition of classical American philosophy, usually referred to as pragmatism, shares with feminist theories. Because pragmatism developed along with the emergence of departments of philosophy in the United States, it also begins recovering the shared history of some of the first women to receive philosophy degrees. It claims that women in and out of the academy influenced pragmatism and shows how contemporary feminist philosophers continue to challenge and appropriate it.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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