Are women adult human females?
Are women (simply) adult human females? Dictionaries suggest that they are. However, philosophers who have explicitly considered the question invariably answer no. This paper argues that they are wrong. The orthodox view is that the category woman is a social category, like the categories widow and...
Main Author: | Byrne, Alexander (Author) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC,
2020-11-04T21:40:53Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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