Make Room for More Voices in Philosophy
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In her new book, How to Think Like a Woman, the journalist Regan Penaluna zooms in on four overlooked female philosophers. Focusing on them is valuable not just because of the luminosity of each one’s thinking but also because of the argument implicit in such a choice: that women have an indispensable role to play in the male-dominated field of philosophy, Sophia Stewart wrote last week.
One’s understanding of the world is, Andrea Wulf writes in her book . Fichte’s ideas, particularly his assertion that all people have free will, are still foundational to virtually all modern Western thought.
