Professor: Reason Itself Is A White Male Construct trib.al/jSjtDC1
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This is news? The idea of some “pure reason” detached from any kind of situated embodiment has been, uh, controversial for a while.
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there's a loooooooong path from accepting that our ape nature constrains how we reason to specializing it to white-male apes
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but not to recognizing that how we talk about and use “reason” has a history. Multiple competing histories, actually, across cultures.
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"Reasoning" like geometry, arithmetic, calendars were invented multiple times. To me that says 'not a cultural construct'
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