Philosophy and Gender
In which Jonathan Bennett refers to all females working on conditionals at the time of his writing by employing a single proper name:
Whenever I report what someone ‘told me’, ‘warned me’, or the like, I always mean that he or Dorothy did so in a personal communication.
Bennett, Jonathan. 2003. A Philosophical Guide to Conditionals, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p.viii.
November 15th, 2007 at 5:12 am
In which Jonathan Bennett refers to all females working on conditionals with whom he had talked or corresponded about the issues at the time of his writing…
[quite possibly he thought there were some others, with whom he had not had personal communications]