Why Feminist Philosophy Matters

Pamela Anderson (Oxford University), Professor Beverley Clack (Oxford Brookes University), Liz Thompson

Pamela Sue Anderson & Beverley Clack
in conversation with Liza Thompson

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Wednesday February 5, 18.00

In Association with the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Oxford Brookes University &  Bloomsbury Publishing

Drinks and nibbles from 17.40

All Welcome – Free Admission – No Registration Required

This conversation will explore the significance of feminist philosophy both within and outside of the academy. Liza Thompson will ask Pamela Anderson and Beverley Clack about the relation of feminist philosophy to feminism, and the role which the former has played in their research and working life at large. Together they will explore different ways in which feminist thinking can reformulate the relationship between the factual, theoretical, and practical, thereby providing a template for how a socially and politically engaged philosophy might work.

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Pamela Sue Anderson is a philosopher who specialises in feminist philosophy, continental philosophy, and philosophy of religion. She is Reader in Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford and Fellow in Philosophy, Regent’s Park College. Anderson is the author of several books including Ricoeur and Kant, A Feminist Philosophy of Religion, Re-visioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion: Reason, Love, and Epistemic Locatedness, & In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff (forthcoming), and the editor of New Topics in Feminist Philosophy of Religion and co-editor of Feminist Philosophy of Religion; Critical Readings (with Beverley Clack).

Beverley Clack is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University. She specialises in feminism, continental philosophy of religion, and psychoanalysis. Clack is the author of numerous books including Freud on the Couch, Sex and Death, Misogyny in the Western Philosophical Tradition: A Reader, & Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction, and co-editor of Feminist Philosophy of Religion (with Pamela Anderson). She is currently writing a book on Failure for Bloomsbury Academic.

Liza Thomspon is the Senior Commissioning Editor for Philosophy at Bloomsbury and co-organiser of the Why Philosophy Matters series at the Ashmolean Museum.