Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Criticisms of LessWrong/reply (13)

Ah, this chestnut.

Gimbutas has been more fashionable to cite these days than Chalice and the Blade, in my experience. I don't know how widespread such pseudo-scholarship is, but this sort of thing makes me skeptical of stuff coming out of women's studies departments when it crosses onto my "turf," i.e. cognitive science/psych and history (and OTOH, I am skeptical of sexist pseudo-psychology as you know). The pseudo-feminist Courage to Heal was probably one of the most dangerous books published "for" women in the past few decades.

I still don't see why this is specifically "feminist" ethics. Ethical philosophers going under the catch-all terms of "sentimentalists" and "moral skeptics" are nothing new. It sounds like your philosophy dep't was stuck in a positivist time warp. Even in the intro course, we did way more than Kant.