The Socratic Method and the Alienation of Women in Philosophy

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Susan Brison says "Women face the cataclysmic destruction of their world alone, surrounded by people who find it so hard to understand what's so distressing"1 . While she is talking about the threat of violence that all women feel, this is the same feeling women have when doing philosophy, something that can destroy and create their worlds through theory, while those around them have little personal stake in the matter other than their own success and desires. Philosophy is a cataclysm of a vacuum of white men and their opinions. The world seems to have made significant progress within the disparities between genders and minorities of all kinds. We see the National Football League using advertisements that promote women within the sport, we see women feeling empowered with America's first female Vice President. Yet, within the academic discipline of philosophy, it seems as if nothing has changed, and at best these topics have been addressed by those with power inside academia with a surface level analysis.