Reconstructing Society with Women Pragmatists

Careful examination[aut]Marga Taganas, Kissah of philosophical texts reveals the long historyHistory of exclusion of womenWomen and their works in the field. Occasional references to a woman or her work are but a normal and unquestioned tradition until feminist philosophers’ resistance to these practices. Feminist scholarship seeks to redound the decades-long unaccounted womenWomen philosophers in historyHistory. The task of this chapter is to commit to the pivotal recovery of women’s works that were tremendously overshadowed by their male contemporaries because of the perceived result of the patriarchal structures operating within the societySociety. Case in point: WomenWomen PragmatistsPragmatists. The main philosophical movement this essay wishes to uncover and explore is the marriageMarriage of the two movements pragmatism and feminismFeminism, which later commonly referred to as Feminist Pragmatism. Feminist Pragmatism is essentially a philosophical tradition that draws insights and perspectives from two very rich movements in historyHistory: FeminismFeminism and Pragmatism. It aims to develop pragmatistPragmatists positions informed by feminist valuesValue and enrich feminist analyses using pragmatistPragmatists perspectives. To uncover the contours of the theoretical landscape of Feminist Pragmatism, this essay explores the key commitments and features of this philosophical thought as follows: (1) prime importance it gives to contextContext and experienceExperience; (2) relationship of valuesValue and the production of knowledge and metaphysicsMetaphysics; (3) need for diversityDiversity in the communityCommunity; (4) commitment to transformationTransformation and reconstructionReconstruction of societySociety (Hamington & Bardwell-Jones, 2012). The nascence of this philosophical thought lends us rich references and resources of Feminist Pragmatists to argue for the transformationTransformation the societySociety needs.