Discovering Reality Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

Discovering Reality Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science / edited by Sandra Harding, Merrill B. Hintikka †.

During the last decade, feminist research has attempted to add understandings of women and their social activities to what we all thought we knew about nature and social life. However, from the very beginning of this project, it has appeared to be in tension with some ofthe most fundamental insights...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Harding, Sandra (Editor), Hintikka †, Merrill B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
Edition:2nd ed. 2003.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 161
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Epistemology.
Philosophy and science.
Social sciences.
Modern philosophy.
Biology—Philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Woman Is Not a Rational Animal: On Aristotle’s Biology of Reproduction
  • Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul
  • The Unit of Political Analysis: Our Aristotelian Hangover
  • Have Only Men Evolved?
  • Evolution and Patriarchal Myths of Scarcity and Competition
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science
  • The Trivialization of the Notion of Equality
  • How Can Language Be Sexist?
  • A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method
  • The Man of Professional Wisdom
  • Gender and Science
  • The Mind’s Eye
  • Individualism and the Objects of Psychology
  • Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics
  • The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
  • Why Has the Sex/Gender System Become Visible Only Now?
  • Index of Names.

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