Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

by Grasswick, Heidi E.

• ISBN13: 9781402068348
• ISBN10: 1402068344
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-25
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw. In addition to a recognition of the power of knowledge itself and its effects on women's lives, a central feature of feminist epistemology and philosophy of science has been the attention they draw to the role of power dynamics within knowledge-seeking practices and the implications of these dynamics for our understandings of knowledge, science, and epistemology.Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge collects new works that address today's key challenges for a power-sensitive feminist approach to questions of knowledge and scientific practice. The essays build upon established work in feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, offering new developments in the fields, and representing the broad array of the feminist work now being done and the many ways in which feminists incorporate power dynamics into their analyses.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Twenty-First Century	p. xiii
Intersections: Feminism, Epistemology, and Science Studies
The Marginalization of Feminist Epistemology and What That Reveals About Epistemology 'Proper'	p. 3
Contextualism in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science	p. 25
Altogether Now: A Virtue-Theoretic Approach to Pluralism in Feminist Epistemology	p. 45
The Implications of the New Materialisms for Feminist Epistemology	p. 69
Interrogating the Modernity vs. Tradition Contrast: Whose Science and Technology for Whose Social Progress?	p. 85
Democracy and Diversity in Knowledge Practices
Diversity and Dissent in Science: Does Democracy Always Serve Feminist Aims?	p. 111
What Is in It for Me? The Benefits of Diversity in Scientific Communities	p. 133
What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work and the Academy	p. 157
Contexts of Oppression: Accountability in Knowing
More Than Skin Deep: Situated Communities and Agent Orange in the Aluoi Valley, Vietnam	p. 183
'They Treated Him Well': Fact, Fiction, and the Politics of Knowledge	p. 205
Wrongful Requests and Strategic Refusals to Understand	p. 223
Liberatory Epistemology and the Sharing of Knowledge: Querying the Norms	p. 241
Index	p. 263
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