HomePhilosophia: International Journal of Philosophyvol. 14 no. 1 (2013)

Sabina Lovibond. Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy

Cheryll C. Regala

Discipline: Philosophy

 

Abstract:

Sabina Lovibond is a fellow and tutor in Philosophy at Oxford’s Worcester College as well as a CUF lecturer in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy. Her research interests are ethics, ancient philosophy, practical rationality, feminist theory, and the idea of a postmodern critique of reason. Being at the forefront of feminist scholarship she is a testimony to the intellectual value of feminism as a radicalizing energy to philosophical enquiry. Her publications include Realism and imagination in ethics (1983); Ethics, A feminist reader (1992), edited with Elizabeth Frazen and Jennifer Hornsby; and, Essays for David Wiggins: Identity, truth and value (1996), edited with SP Williams