ABSTRACT
The Australian philosopher David Stove has little fame outside his native land. Stove himself remarked that his intellectual capacities were mainly of the destructive variety and the author think that is true. His criticisms were usually very sharp and sometimes very funny. Stove’s paper ‘The intellectual capacity of women’ has been printed three times, from which it is reasonable to infer that it is well-liked by his admirers. ‘The intellectual capacity of women’ was first read to a meeting of a Sydney philosophical society, the Russellian Society, in 1990 and then printed and distributed to members of the society as part of its Proceedings. Stove insisted that he had no logical proof that women are intellectually inferior to men. Stove claims that most people have always believed that women are intellectually inferior to men – a feeble reason, surely, for accepting a giant generalisation about intellectual capacities.
