Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science Power in Knowledge /

This collection brings together exciting new works that address today’s key challenges for a feminist power-sensitive approach to knowledge and scientific practice. Taking up such issues as the role of contextualism in epistemology, democracy and dissent in knowledge practices, and epistemic agency...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Grasswick, Heidi E. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction: Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Twenty-first Century; Heidi E. Grasswick
  • I Intersections: Feminism, Epistemology, and Science Studies
  • 1. The Marginalization of Feminist Epistemology and What That Reveals About Epistemology ‘Proper’; Phyllis Rooney
  • 2. Contextualism in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science; Kristina Rolin
  • 3. Altogether Now: A Virtue-theoretic Approach to Pluralism in Feminist Epistemology; Nancy Daukas
  • 4. The Implications of the New Materialisms for Feminist Epistemology; Samantha Frost
  • 5. Interrogating the Modernity vs. Tradition Contrast: Whose Science and Technology for Whose Social Progress?; Sandra Harding
  • II Democracy and Diversity in Knowledge Practices
  • 6. Is Millian Democratic Science the Right Model for Feminist Science?; Kristen Intemann
  • 7. What’s in it for me? The Benefits of Diversity in Scientific Communities; Carla Fehr
  • 8. What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work and the Academy; Alison Wylie
  • III Contexts of Oppression: Accountability in Knowing
  • 9. More than Skin Deep: Situated Communities and the Case of Agent Orange in the Aluoi Valley, Viet Nam; Nancy McHugh
  • 10. ‘They Treated Him Well’: Fact, Fiction, and the Politics of Knowledge; Lorraine Code
  • 11. Wrongful Requests and Strategic Refusals to Understand; Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr
  • 12. Liberatory Epistemology and Sharing Knowledge: Querying the Norms; Heidi E. Grasswick
  • Index.