 The pragmatist commitment to situated knowledge, rather than abstract or idealized knowing has been influential in some fields of feminist ethics, particularly in care ethics. Maurice Hamington draws on Addams’s ethics to articulate “a proactive embodied care” based on “ habits of interaction” (2004: 104). George Herbert Mead’s philosophy of the self has also played a prominent role in care ethics for both Hamington and Heather Keith. As Keith said of Mead’s concept: “ the self is wholly integrated into an ecology of both physical and social relationships facilitates a conception of selfhood valuable to the sort of personal and moral liberation called for by feminism” (1999: 330). 