Janet Cameron

The Trouble with Trolleyology and Fatism A weird week this week. What do YOU think about this new trolleyology dilemma? I joined a meeting with some budding philosophers to tell them something about my research relating to women phiilosophers, from ancient times to the present day. (Eighteen Amazing Women Philosophers) It should have been fun. I planned a section on the growth of feminism through its famous "three waves" and, for a lively group discussion, I picked Philippa Foot's "Trolley Problem" where you may choose to divert a runaway trolley from its track towards one person, to save five vulnerable people on the other track. There have been a few variants on Philippa Foot's work to look at other moral aspects presented by the problem. This includes the famous variant, The Fat Man. The Fat Man version supposes that, instead of diverting the trolley with a lever, you push a fat man in front of it to stop it. Many people are willing to ...

Interview with Janet Cameron What book marketing techniques have been most effective for you? I like Pinterest, as it's fun to create pins and categorise them. The problem is that the first edition of my EIGHTEEN AMAZING WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS (published on Smashwords as FIFTEEN WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS) did well on Pinterest, and had around 1.3k hits, and plenty of shares and comments. My publisher, the online educational site, Decoded Everything, folded, and my book disappeared so I needed to republlish it myself which has been a tough learning curve. It has also been a little bit painful closing down the pins displaying that first edition, and sacrificing the 1.3k hits to give the new book a chance. I hope it will soon catch up, as it's beeen revised and has three more brilliant women philosophers. It's my baby, the result of lots of research and reflection and inspiring content, and I hope people will continue to buy it. What is your favourite review for Eighteen Amazin...

💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓 If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same nam...

EIGHTEEN AMAZING WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS Click on the link above to find in either paperback and ebook. Be a part of it.  Women must claim their buried past along with the men who care for them. The development of women's philosophical thought spans the three waves of feminism starting in the late 1800s. This history did not spring from a vacuum. Before the early suffragettes lies a plethora of amazing, smart-thinking women pepared to speak up and to suffer for their beliefs - and so it continues.  Learn about Hypatia of Alexandria, Murasaki Shikubu, Marie le Jars de Gournay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, Ernestine Rose, Ada Lovelace, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, Iris Murdoch, Mary Warnock, Mary Midgley and Mary Beard.  These women, and others like them, blazed trails for feminism and helped change the world and the way we think today. We can only wonder at their ...

REVIEWS FOR FROG HEAVEN Mr. F. Parker 5.0 out of 5 stars Empathy for the Human Condition 19 April 2016 Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase The stories in this collection have all been published elsewhere in the past but this is the first time they have been offered in a collection. I am glad that Ms Cameron chose to do so. What I most like about the collection is the empathy with which MS Cameron draws the characters with which she populates her stories. There's Zara, a woman camped in the woods near a cottage occupied by a couple escaping from urban life. Reminiscent of Alan Bennett's 'Lady in the Van', this story ends with a touching twist. In the title story, a recently widowed woman is struggling to come to terms with her grief as she watches her toddler son. Washing up plays a key role in two stories, acting as metaphor for the problems faced daily by women. All but one of the central characters are women and these...

I am devastated that the introductory style and format of my EIGHTEEN AMAZING WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS has been appropriated by some university graduates. This new university-supported book is not the "first" at all, and the editors shouldn't be using this claim as a promotional tool and to pursue crowdfunding, especially as the original edition of my book dates back to 2014. I am not sure how anyone could have missed my work if they were really looking as is claimed. My Fifteen Women Philosophers was published in 2014, five years ago by decodedscience.org, and since Decoded has recently folded, the rights reverted to me and the new edition in ebook EIGHTEEN AMAZING WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS (inc. 3 extra chapters, see above) was independently published on Amazon in May 2019, swiftly followed by the paperback. During its first edition it appeared on several platforms, Amazon, Decodedscience.org, Smashwords, Goodreads. The editor of my monthly column has plugged it for me si...