Genevieve Mary Lloyd (born 16 October 1941 at Cootamundra, New South Wales), is an Australian

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

Biography

Lloyd studied philosophy at the

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in the early 1960s and then at

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. The colle ...

. Her D.Phil, awarded in 1973, was on "Time and Tense". From 1967 until 1987 she lectured at the

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, during which period she developed her most influential ideas and wrote '' The Man of Reason'', which was published in 1984. In 1987 she was appointed to the chair of philosophy at the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was established in 1949. The university comprises seven faculties, through which it offers bachelor's, master's and docto ...

, being the first female professor of philosophy appointed in Australia.Lloyd, Genevieve (1941–)
''Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' Macmillan Reference USA, cited at BookRags She was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1995. On retirement, she was appointed

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Emerita.

Philosophical work

Lloyd's 1979 paper ''The Man of Reason'' explores the influence of seventeenth century rationalist philosophy on contemporary views of gender and reason. It argues that Cartesian method encouraged a new polarisation between reason, on the one side, and emotion and imagination on the other. The ''Man of Reason'' was further elevated to an ethical (not merely epistemic) ideal in Spinoza's

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. Even though Descartes and Spinoza's rationalism is less popular today, Lloyd argues that we continue to live with the ideal of the Man of Reason their work gave rise to. She went on to develop these ideas further in her 1984

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of the same name.

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Help Sheet on Genevieve Lloyd

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