Christine Ladd-Franklin: Pragmatist Feminist.
Before the early 1990s, accounts of classical American philosophy paid relatively little attention to the work and intellectual contributions of women philosophers. However, as early as 1991, a number of contemporary feminist philosophers and historians began to devote more focused attention to wome...
| Published in: | Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 299 - 322 |
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