The Other

HELEN FIELDING Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada ANNEMIE HALSEMA Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands GABRIELLE HILTMANN Lecturer in Philosophy, Basel University, Switzerland RACHEL JONES Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Dundee, UK DOROTHEA OLKOWSKI Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA ANNE RECIHOLD Professor of Philosophy, University of Flensburg, Germany CHRISTINA SCHUES Assistant Professor, University of Vechta, Germany JENNY SLATMAN Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Tilberg University, the Netherlands CATHRYN VASSELEU University of Technology, Sydney, Australia VERONICA VASTERLING Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands GAIL WEISS Associate Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University, USA

The western philosophical tradition has only recently explored alterity, in particular the alterity of woman as the other of man. This volume reflects on the ethical implications of this, and on the need for a rethinking of the implicit structures of Western philosophy, which exclude women as subjects who conceptualize the world and society.The western philosophical tradition has only recently explored alterity, in particular the alterity of woman as the other of man. This volume reflects on the ethical implications of this, and on the need for a rethinking of the implicit structures of Western philosophy, which exclude women as subjects who conceptualize the world and society.