11. Using Wittgensteinian Methodology to Elucidate the Meaning of ‘‘Equality’’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. List of Abbreviations xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Section I: The Subject of Philosophy and the Philosophical Subject
8. 1. Philosophy, Language, and Wizardry 25
9. 2. Wittgenstein, Feminism, and the Exclusions of Philosophy 48
10. 3. Speaking Philosophy in the Voice of Another: Wittgenstein, Irigaray, and the Inheritance of Mimesis 65
11. Section II: Wittgensteinian Feminist Philosophy: Contrasting Visions
12. 4. What Do Feminists Want in an Epistemology? 97
13. 5. Making Mistakes, Rendering Nonsense, andMoving Toward Uncertainty 119
14. 6. Tractatio Logico-Philosophica: Engendering Wittgenstein’s Tractatus 138
15. 7. The Moral Language Game 159
16. 8. The Short Life of Meaning: Feminism and Nonliteralism 176
17. Section III: Drawing Boundaries: Categories and Kinds
18. 9. ‘‘Back to the Rough Ground!’’: Wittgenstein, Essentialism, and Feminist Methods 195
19. 10. Wittgenstein Meets ‘Woman’ in the Language-Game of Theorizing Feminism 213
20. 11. Using Wittgensteinian Methodology to Elucidate the Meaning of ‘‘Equality’’ 235
21. 12. Eleanor Rosch and the Development of Successive Wittgensteinian Paradigms for Cognitive Science 259
22. Section IV: Being Human: Agents and Subjects
23. 13. Words and Worlds: Some Thoughts on the Significance of Wittgenstein for Moral and Political Philosophy 287
24. 14. Big Dogs, Little Dogs, Universal Dogs: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Patricia Williams Talk About the Logic of Conceptual Rearing 305
25. 15. Developing Wittgenstein’s Picture of the Soul: Toward a Feminist Spiritual Erotics 322
26. 16. ‘‘No Master, Outside or In’’: Wittgenstein’s Critique of the Proprietary Subject 344
27. Section V: Feminism’s Allies: New Players, New Games
28. 17. Wittgensteinian Vision(s) and ‘‘Passionate Detachments’’: A Queer Context for a Situated Episteme 367
29. 18. Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colour as Remarks on Racism 389
30. 19. Culture, Nature, Ecosystem (or Why Nature Can’t Be Naturalized) 408
31. 20. Moving to New Boroughs: Transforming the World by Inventing Language Games 432
32. Bibliography 451
33. Index 455
34. Contributors 469