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Feminist researchers have been critically examining science for more than a century but the recent focus is less on the science and more on the philosophy of science. In this work Sharyn Clough turns a discerning eye on this trend, finding that philosophy, particularly epistemology, is not the most useful focus for feminists engaged in science criticism. Using Donald Davidson's philosophy of language, Clough reveals the problems of epistemology to be unnecessary for feminist science studies and advocates instead a return to the empirical research that guided feminist science studies until a few decades ago. Case studies from feminist work in evolutionary theory serve to illustrate her arguments.

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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

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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