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Clough shows how inadequate empirical philosophy is in creating real change in the sciences. Instead, she supports a more pragmatic approach based on the work of Richard Rorty and Donald Davidson. This work encourages Clough's fellow feminists to refocus their critiques and discard their philosophical debates about epistemology.

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Sharyn Clough’s Beyond Epistemology is an important intervention in feminist science studies and the philosophy of science more generally. Clough argues convincingly that the epistemological turn in feminist science studies has been self-defeating. Her pragmatist alternative constructively reclaims earlier feminist commitment to critical engagement with specific scientific projects. -- Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University Beyond Epistemology brings us tantalizing questions from an exciting new feminist philosopher. * Women's Review of Books * Beyond Epistemology is a bold intervention into the vigorous and quickly evolving debates that are shaping feminist philosophy of science. Clough’s analysis will surely generate much fruitful debate; it offers an articulation of the rationale that underpins some of the richest and most promising of empirically grounded feminist analyses of science. -- Alison Wylie, University of Washington

Beyond Epistemology is a bold intervention into the vigorous and quickly evolving debates that are shaping feminist philosophy of science. Clough 's analysis will surely generate much fruitful debate; it offers an articulation of the rationale that underpins some of the richest and most promising of empirically grounded feminist analyses of science.--Alison Wylie

Sharyn Clough s Beyond Epistemology is an important intervention in feminist science studies and the philosophy of science more generally. Clough argues convincingly that the epistemological turn in feminist science studies has been self-defeating. Her pragmatist alternative constructively reclaims earlier feminist commitment to critical engagement with specific scientific projects.--Joseph Rouse

Sharyn Clough's Beyond Epistemology is an important intervention in feminist science studies and the philosophy of science more generally. Clough argues convincingly that the epistemological turn in feminist science studies has been self-defeating. Her pragmatist alternative constructively reclaims earlier feminist commitment to critical engagement with specific scientific projects. -- Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University Beyond Epistemology brings us tantalizing questions from an exciting new feminist philosopher. Women's Review of Books Beyond Epistemology is a bold intervention into the vigorous and quickly evolving debates that are shaping feminist philosophy of science. Clough's analysis will surely generate much fruitful debate; it offers an articulation of the rationale that underpins some of the richest and most promising of empirically grounded feminist analyses of science. -- Alison Wylie, University of Washington

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Sharyn Clough is assistant professor of philosophy at Rowan University and a research fellow at the University of Tennessee. She has written for Hypatia, Social Epistemology, and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biology and the Biomedical Sciences.

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