ABSTRACT
According to F. H . Bradley, 'Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct but to find these reasons is no less an instinct' (1893, p. xiv). What I have suggested in previous chapters is that the instincts that have been privileged in the history of metaphysics have been those which attach to a male body. However, what I have also indicated is that metaphysics is not a monolithic tradition, and offers us resources for thinking self and identity otherwise. It is possible to develop a new descriptive metaphysics to describe orderings in space and persistence through time, in ways that would be more appropriate to thinking female identities. Since this last claim is at odds with much written in postmodern feminist theory, this chapter will start by exploring these divergences.
