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- From: davis@passy.ilog.fr (Harley Davis)
- Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
- Subject: Re: The "validity" of feminist philosophy
- Message-ID: <DAVIS.92Nov13115003@passy.ilog.fr>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 10:50:03 GMT
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- In-reply-to: holmes@garnet.idbsu.edu's message of 10 Nov 92 16:58:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.165822.2107@guinness.idbsu.edu> holmes@garnet.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes) writes:
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- Except in extreme cases. Feminist epistemology is absurd, unless one
- believes in "woman's intuition". The ways in which people know things
- do not depend on their gender in any _philosophically_ relevant way.
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- It's not so obvious. For example, studies indicate that women have
- more a more sensitive sense of smell than men. If human pheromones
- indicate emotion, and women are more sensitive to these pheromones
- than men, than women could have more direct sensory access to the
- emotions of those around them. I can imagine lots of ways in which
- such an ability would be philosophically relevant.
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- -- Harley Davis
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