Preface
Annette C. Baier was Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, Emerita, at the University of Pittsburgh. She also taught at the philosophy department of the University of Otago in New Zealand.
[Baier’s book is] likely to be widely read by moral philosophers in
the next hundred years. Anscombe, MacIntyre, Schneewind, Williams,
and other contemporary philosophers have expressed well-founded
suspicions about the value of moral philosophy as it has been
practiced in the English-speaking world since the days of Sidgwick.
But Baier goes a step beyond these suspicions. It is her feminism,
and the attention which feminism brings with it to specific,
concrete injustices, that have enabled her to do so. She offers not
just suspicion, but an original, constructive, promising new
account of the place of moral philosophy in culture.
*London Review of Books*
Baier’s book is a brilliant contribution to contemporary moral
philosophy: clear, undogmatic, yet still rigorous… She writes both
as a philosopher and as a woman but she hastens to add that female
moral philosophers will have the same goal as men: to formulate a
theory acceptable to everybody, i.e. to both women and men.
*Expressen (Stockholm)*
The collection represents much of the best that good philosophy can
offer: deeply felt engagement, an unusual and personal style, and
constructive and imaginative suggestions, along with the
recognition that much remains to be done and that it can be best
done cooperatively. With writers like Annette Baier around, there
is no danger of moral or philosophical stagnation.
*Philosophical Books*
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