Reviews for An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

The average rating for An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-02-20 00:00:00 Matthew Mclaughlin To do good must engage in evil - Dirty Hands - Opens up a can of worms (some people more important than others) Corruption encouraged. End justifies means? (Torture, pre-emptive strikes political assassinations etc.)

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-08 00:00:00 Kathleen G Pipes This book is a very good introduction to philosophy of mind, in parts. As a general introduction it is very good. There are parts which explain things more clearly than any other similar textbook I have read (e.g. Kim's philosophy of mind). But it is not a deep as Kim's book and the coverage is not as thorough - for example I found nothing on anomalous monism, which I would have thought was a fairly central part of contemporary philosophy of mind. Additionally, the last two chapters, which whilst being interesting, seemed out of place. Whilst chapters 1-11 are a general unbiased introduction, chapters 12-13 are Heil's own views on philosophy of mind. I suspect this is just a personal view, but I prefer philosophy books to either contain a specific argument from the writer or to be a reference source of both sides of the main arguments in any specific area - combining the two in one book does not work for me. But you could do far worse than this book if you want a reasonably deep, yet relatively easy to get into introduction to philosophy of mind.