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 and Merrill B. Hintikka.

Are Western epistemology, metaphysics, methodology and the philosophy of science grounded only in men's distinctive understandings of themselves, others, and nature? Does this less than human understanding distort our models of reason and of scientific inquiry? In different ways, the papers in...

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Other Authors: Harding, Sandra G., Hintikka, Merrill B., 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : Hingham, MA : D. Reidel ; Sold and distributed in the USA and Canada by Kluwer Boston, ©1983.
Series:Synthese library ; v. 161.
Subjects:
Feminism.
Philosophy > History.
Science > Philosophy.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
feminism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminism
Philosophy
Science > Philosophy
Social sciences > Philosophy
Philosophie
Wissenschaft
Feminismus
Feministische filosofie.
Sekseverschillen.
Natuurwetenschappen.
Sociale wetenschappen.
Sexisme > Philosophie.
Philosophie.
Théorie féministe.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Woman is not a rational animal : on Aristotle's biology of reproduction / Lynda Lange
  • Aristotle and the politicization of the soul / Elizabeth V. Spelman
  • The unit of political analysis : our Aristotelian hangover / Judith Hicks Stiehm
  • Have only men evolved? / Ruth Hubbard
  • Evolution and patriarchal myths of scarcity and competition / Michael Gross and Mary Beth Averill
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman : forerunner of a feminist social science / Ann Palmeri
  • The trivialization of the notion of equality / Louise Marcil-Lacoste
  • How can language be sexist? / Merrill B. Hintikka Jaakko Hintikka
  • A paradigm of philosophy : the adversary method / Janice Moulton
  • The man of professional wisdom / Kathryn Pyne Addelson
  • Gender and science / Evelyn Fox Keller
  • The mind's eye / Evelyn Fox Keller and Christine R. Grontkowski
  • Individualism and the objects of psychology / Naomi Scheman
  • Political philosophy and the patriarchal unconscious : a psychoanalytic perspective on epistemology and metaphysics / Jane Flax
  • The feminist standpoint : developing the ground for a specifically feminist historical materialism / Nancy C.M. Hartsock
  • Why has the sex/gender system become visible only now? / Sandra Harding.

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