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    Susan Easton

    contemporaryFeminist Philosophy

    Susan Easton is a contemporary philosopher working in feminist epistemology and the philosophy of gender. Her work addresses methodological concerns about how mainstream philosophy has historically overlooked or misrepresented women's lived experiences. She argues that adequate philosophical theorizing about women requires substantive engagement with the structural conditions that shape women's opportunities.

    Notable Achievements

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    Argued that philosophical accounts of women must incorporate analysis of structural obstacles to women's opportunities

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    Contributed to feminist critiques of androcentric bias in philosophical methodology

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    Advanced epistemological work on situated knowledge and gendered experience

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    Moral Responsibility

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    Philosophers speculating about women ought to take into account the obstacles to women's opportunities for subjecthood and choice created by those who constructed an oppressive situation for women.

    Rights & Liberty

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    Philosophers speculating about women ought to take into account the obstacles to women's opportunities for subjecthood and choice created by those who constructed an oppressive situation for women.

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    Feminist Philosophy

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