Calling evil evil …

… Boo to the Boo-Hurrahs: how four Oxford women transformed philosophy - Prospect Magazine.

(Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Lipscomb’s book succeeds wonderfully in presenting a particular era in philosophy, and the huge influence of, in particular, Anscombe and Foot in the field of ethics. One area not explored much is that of sex and gender. In a way, this mirrors the women’s writing. Lipscomb notes that only Midgley wrote anything about the (philosophical) question of “women,” and then mostly in the context of being allowed to think and to work.