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Cassandra L Pinnick - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology an examination of gender in science
    2003
    Co-Authors: Cassandra L Pinnick, Noretta Koertge, Robert F Almeder
    Abstract:

    This volume presents the first systematic evaluation of a Feminist Epistemology of science's power to transform both the practice of science and our society. Unlike existing critiques, this book questions the fundamental Feminist suggestion that purging science of alleged male biases will advance the cause of both science and by extension, social justice. The book is divided into four sections: the strange status of Feminist Epistemology, testing Feminist claims about scientific practice, philosophical and political critiques of Feminist Epistemology, and future prospects of Feminist Epistemology. Each of the essays-most of which are original to this text-directly confronts the very idea that there could be a Feminist Epistemology or philosophy of science. Rather than attempting to deal in detail with all of the philosophical views that fall under the general rubric of Feminist Epistemology, the contributors focus on positions that provide the most influential perspectives on science. Not all of the authors agree amongst themselves, of course, but each submits Feminist theories to careful scrutiny.

  • Feminist Epistemology implications for philosophy of science
    Philosophy of Science, 1994
    Co-Authors: Cassandra L Pinnick
    Abstract:

    This article examines the best contemporary arguments for a Feminist Epistemology of scientific knowledge as found in recent works by S. Harding. I argue that no Feminist Epistemology of science is worthy of the name, because such an Epistemology fails to escape well-known vicissitudes of epistemic relativism. But Feminist Epistemology merits attention from philosophers of science because it is part of a larger relativist turn in the social sciences and humanities that now aims to extend its critique to science, and Harding's "standpoint feminism" is the best-developed case. She attempts to make new use of discredited philosophical ideas concerning underdetermination, Planck's Hypothesis, and the role of counterfactuals in historical studies of science.

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Sandra Lozano Rubio - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • gender thinking in the making Feminist Epistemology and gender archaeology
    Norwegian Archaeological Review, 2011
    Co-Authors: Sandra Lozano Rubio
    Abstract:

    In this paper I suggest that gender archaeology has followed the three main Feminist epistemologies as described by Sandra Harding (1986): Feminist empiricism, standpoint theory, and Feminist postmodernism. I explore the main principles of these orientations and discuss their use in gender archaeology, offering examples from Norwegian, Spanish and North American contexts. My purpose is to trace a genealogy of gender archaeology from the point of view of Epistemology that will reveal its Feminist character. Even though it has been developed within the processual and post-processual contexts of archaeology, a review of its epistemological principles will show that gender archaeology must be situated within a wider Feminist framework.

Cynthia B Dillard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.