Pertaining to women and philosophy.......?

That could be. However, I'm not really sure about that, so I would be hesitant to accept it. I do notice a lack of women philosophers though, you're right. Well, at least really famous ones. To counter myself, when I check philosophy department faculty members from random universities for fun (yes, I do get that bored sometimes) I notice a good amount of women. Yeah, they are indeed less then men, but perhaps not as little as you would think.

Now my second point is that a lot of women here answered with a lot of nonsense. They seemed to get offended first and angered rather than to think clearly (kind of proving your point huh..). Take Annabelle for instance. Does she not know that the same exact trend can be found in science and mathematics. She tried to bash philosophy because she took it personal, implying philosophy was a bunch of gibberish and not related to reality, or the "real world", and women would never study such a thing, because women are sooooo practical and grounded in reality. However how does she explain the same exact thing (probably even LESS women) in the sciences and math. They're certainly pretty practical subjects...

In short. Annabelle, go make me a sandwich. The internet is too abstract for you, and I didn't let you out of the kitchen.

I do not think it makes it anymore difficult to study. I have actually developed my own theory on why there are not more notable female philosophers. Men are often more encouraged to be confident and at times forceful with their beliefs or ideas. I feel a lot of the theories could easily have been thought of by women but they are just less likely to go out to the streets to get any followers. It is similar to why there are so few female CEOs. It isn't that we can't run a company, its just that we don't have the same drive to be "number one".

Women have been encouraged to be emotional and do not stifle it when growing up. They are herded to the emotional realm because everything else belongs to men. This is very much a man's world still. And we all know the mess it's in.

Men are taught from childhood to avoid too much emotion because it makes them "weak" and they have to put up a big front because that is what the caveman does. So they grow up without emotional intelligence. They avoid emotions. Often when they fall in love they get very scared because it makes them vulnerable. They have trouble feeling empathy for others too.

I think women are very good thinkers and can tackle several tasks at once. They are also good philosophers, just listen to any of them.

But a long time ago, women were not allowed to stand around in the market place discussing the meaning of life, they were home taking care of the livestock, the cooking, cleaning, children, gathering medicinal herbs, skinning animals, you name it.

The more the mind is used, the more the mind works well.

History is written by those who won and those who dominate.

Mrs. Einstein is just as responsible for E=MC squared as her hubby. She was brilliant. But because it is a man's world, no one cared about what she said. He got all the credit.

This world needs the feminine input in order to survive. Unless and until this happens, there is not much hope for us.

No. Women are often said to be overly emotional when in fact they are just stating an opinion. Men tell women they are being too emotional to knock down there argument because they cannot logically attack their argument. Men and women alike can put their emotions in check to use logic and reason. I think men and women express different levels of emotion, and it is not deteremined on their sex, but rather the environment they were raised in and their genetic pre-dispositions. In the time that most of the great philosophers came into being women were not able to participate fully in society. Women were at home raising their children and supporting their husbands careers, instead of being able to pursue their own dreams.

Well this is a loaded question. One's emotional nature has nothing to do with intelligence. Women are just as capable as men to think logically.

It is not true women learn to use their emotions first. You need to study the nature of cognitive thought and how it applies to both men and women.

I don't think so, I'd say philosophy has a great deal to do with emotion. Men who are philosophers are more driven by emotion than men who don't care about philosophy. Maybe I'm wrong, though.

the way you think about philosophy isn't the same as the way anyone (male or female) thinks about their everyday life. I mean if you did you would spend the entire day trying to figure out if it's possible to get out of your possibly non existent bed.

There aren't many women philosophers because up untill about 100 years ago women weren't really allowed to do much else besides raise children.

Philosophy is the study of form abstracted from matter. Basically, a bunch of abstracted hogwash no one can prove or disprove. Considering women's more practical nature they would not be as given to philosophizing as men. Historically, women had more important things to do such as tend to entire families. A woman's logical faculties are no less acute than a man's, however, her nature is more grounded in the reality of the here and now. Women are closer to nature and less apt to playing games (games with the mind or games with the body) since she had more imperative things to do with her time.

The true of reality is not found in fancy mind tricks or twists of logic, it is found in the practical application of verifiable experience.

Here are some further links about philosophy, reality, and women:

http://www.kabbalah.info/course/lc/bb.php?id=yahoo...

http://www.kabbalah.info/eng/layout/set/trans_page...

http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/life-love-family/w...

I think it does make it more difficult given our upbringing. But I am grateful for the few and far between. Its refreshing to have a non-dramatic conversation with another woman.

maybe as a female emotion but never as a soul in a female earth suit