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Introduction: Toward Integration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Marsha Hanen
Marsha Hanen*
Affiliation:
General Studies, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4
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The desire for integration is so central to philosophy, I think, that no philosophical tendency will long endure without it. On the other hand, every attempt at integration which has been too grand has collapsed. — Hilary Putnam (Realism and Reason, 303)

Feminist theory, whether specifically philosophical or not, has been integrative in a number of ways. In epistemology and metaphysics it has attacked dualisms and dichotomies and tried to show that mind and body, reason and emotion, civilization and nature are neither separate nor separable; in ethics, we have agreed that rules, principles and justice must be tempered with a sense of caring and community; and, more generally, we have been at pains not to draw too sharp lines between philosophy and psychology, history and anthropology, literary theory and sociology.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume , Volume 13: Science, Morality & Feminist Theory , 1987 , pp. 1 - 21
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Copyright © The Authors 1987

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1 See, for example, Jaggar, Alison M.Feminist Politics and Human Nature (Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Allanheld 1983)Google Scholar.

2 Gilligan, CarolIn a Different Voice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1982)Google Scholar; Noddings, NelCaring (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 1984)Google Scholar

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5 All quotations from this point on are from papers in the present volume, unless otherwise indicated. Specific page references are not given.

6 Gilligan, In A Different Voice

7 Maclntyre, AlasdairAfter Virtue (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press 1981Google Scholar

8 Goodman, NelsonWays of Worldmaking (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company 1978)CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Of Mind and Other Matters (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1984); Putnam, HilaryRealism and Reason (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 1983)Google Scholar; Rorty, RichardPhilosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1979)Google Scholar and Consequences of Pragmatism (Minneapolis, MN: Universtiy of Minnesota Press 1982)

9 Belenky, M.F.Clinchy, B.M.Goldberger, N.R. and Tarule, J.M.Women's Ways of Knowing (New York: Basic Books 1986)Google Scholar

10 Ibid., 18

11 See Hanen, Marsha ‘Feminism, Reason and Philosophical Method,’ in Tomm, W. ed., Effects of Feminist Approaches on Research Methodology (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press forthcoming)Google Scholar.