#1157 Melissa Shew & Kimberly Garchar: Philosophy for Girls
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Drs. Melissa Shu and Kimberly Garsher. Melissa is currently the Associate Director of Teaching Excellence at Marquette University, where she is also the faculty director of their executive MBA program. And Kimberly is associate professor of philosophy at Kent State University and they are authors of Philosophy for Girls and Invitation to the Life of Thought.
And we're going to talk about the book today. So yeah, there it is. Melissa and Kimberly, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Thank you so much for having us.
Thank you so much for having us. Great, so okay, so philosophy for girls, what is the premise of the book? So the premise of the book is that when the word philosopher springs to mind, you usually picture someone in a toga or someone with some arm patches and smoking a pipe or someone with a beret, and that someone is usually a man. And there is nothing about philosophy as a discipline that makes it be for men. Yet throughout the history of philosophy, and our focus is going to be mainly on the history of Western philosophy, but throughout the history of Western philosophy, philosophers have tended to be represented as men.
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