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.

One Response to “Philosophy and Gender”

  1. A. Ped Ant Says:

    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]

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