Overview

Making the Case brings together established and emerging philosophers who use case studies to address a variety of contemporary social justice causes. The contributors show both the depth and breadth of work in this area and highlight the distinctive approaches that feminist and critical race theorists, in particular, have pursued. For these theorists, the choice of the kinds of cases analyzed matters, not only pushing philosophy as a field to foreground the challenges facing marginalized groups but also affecting the kind of philosophy that results. This ensures that their theories do not reproduce the conceptual frameworks of dominant groups. By using thickly described cases, as opposed to the thinly described or hypothetical situations that have been the historic mainstay of philosophy, the contributors strive to create philosophy that never strays too far from the complexities of people's lives on the ground. The book provides philosophers with a host of methodologies, theories, and practical examples for use in social justice case work, with topics ranging from census design and gender bias in science to incarceration and the spate of recent police killings of black men and women.

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Author:   Heidi Grasswick ,  Nancy Arden McHugh
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438482385

ISBN 10:   1438482388
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   02 January 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction Heidi Grasswick and Nancy Arden McHugh Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Case Studies 1. Building a Case for Social Justice: Situated Case Studies in Nonideal Social Theory Corwin Aragon 2. The Coupled Ethical-Epistemic Model as a Resource for Feminist Philosophy of Science, and a Case Study Applying the Model to the Demography of Hispanic Identity Sean A. Valles 3. Feminist Science Studies: Reasoning from Cases Sharon Crasnow Part II: Critiquing the Practice: The Case of Philosophy 4. The Power and Perils of Example: ""Literizing Is Not Theorizing"" Lorraine Code 5. What Philosophy Does (Not) Know Gaile Pohlhaus Jr. 6. Doing Things with Case Studies Carla Fehr Part III: Case Studies for Social Justice 7. Singing the ""Blues"" for Black Male Bodies: Epistemic Violence, Non-alterity, and Black-Male Killings ShaDawn Battle 8. Land(point) Epistemologies: Theorizing the Place of Epistemic Domination Esme G. Murdock 9. Epistemology and HIV Transmission: Privilege and Marginalization in the Dissemination of Knowledge Lacey J. Davidson and Mark Satta 10. Mestizaje as an Epistemology of Ignorance: The Case of the Mexican Genome Diversity Project Sergio Armando Gallegos-Ordorica 11. Epistemic Activism and the Politics of Credibility: Testimonial Injustice Inside/Outside a North Carolina Jail José Medina and Matt S. Whitt Contributors Index"

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Heidi Grasswick is the George Nye and Anne Walker Boardman Professor of Mental and Moral Science at Middlebury College and the editor of Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge. Nancy Arden McHugh is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Wittenberg University and is the author of Feminist Philosophies A–Z and The Limits of Knowledge: Generating Pragmatist Feminist Cases for Situated Knowing, published by SUNY Press.

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