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This work brings together original essays that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science. The volume incorporates essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science. Contributors explore parallels and tensions between feminist approaches to science and other approaches in the philosophy of science and more general science studies. In so doing, they explore notions at the heart of the philosophy of science, including the nature of objectivity, truth, evidence, cognitive agency, scientific method, and the relationship between science and values. Contributors also explore the question of what categories should figure in the explanatory principles employed in the philosophy of science and how, if at all, feminist science scholarship bears on this issue.

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Author:   J. Nelson ,  Jack Nelson
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1996 ed.
Volume:   256
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.440kg
ISBN:  

9780792341628

ISBN 10:   0792341627
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   31 October 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I: Historical Overview: Logical Empiricism and Feminist Empiricism.- The Feminism Question in the Philosophy of Science.- Revaluing Science: Starting from the Practices of Women.- II: Feminist and Mainstream Philosophy of Science: Continuities and Tensions.- Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Values in Science: Rethinking the Dichotomy.- The Last Dogma of Empiricism?.- Science as Social? — Yes and No.- Empiricism without Dogmas.- Underdetermination Undeterred.- The Relativism Question in Feminist Epistemology.- III: Feminist Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge, Social Constructivism, and the Debate Over Science Studies.- Meeting the Universe Halfway: Realism and Social Contructivism without Contradiction.- Feminism and the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge.- Science and Anti-Science: Objectivity and its Real Enemies.- IV: Views From Multicultural and Global Feminisms, and from Feminist Phenomenology.- Multicultural and Global Feminist Philosophies of Science: Resources and Challenges.- Woman — Nature, Product, Style? Rethinking the Foundations of Feminist Philosophy of Science.- Contributors.

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