ISBN:
9789401001014
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXXIX, 332 p)
,
digital
Edition:
Second Edition
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Synthese Library 161
Series Statement:
Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 161
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DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Genetic epistemology
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Biology Philosophy
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Science Philosophy
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Social sciences Methodology
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Philosophy and science.
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Epistemology.
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Modern philosophy.
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Philosophy, modern
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Biology—Philosophy.
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Sociology—Methodology.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Science—Philosophy.
Abstract:
This collection of essays, first published two decades ago, presents central feminist critiques and analyses of natural and social sciences and their philosophies. Unfortunately, in spite of the brilliant body of research and scholarship in these fields in subsequent decades, the insights of these essays remain as timely now as they were then: philosophy and the sciences still presume kinds of social innocence to which they are not entitled. The essays focus on Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Marx; on the 'adversary method' model of philosophic reasoning; on principles of individuation on philosophical ontology and philosophy of language; on individualistic assumptions in psychology; functionalism in sociological and biological theory; evolutionary theory; the methodology of political science; and conceptions of objective inquiry in the sciences. In taking insights of both Liberal and Marxian women's movements into the purportedly most abstract and value-free areas of Western thought, these essays chart sexist and androcentric assumptions, claims and practices in the cognitive, technical cores of Western sciences and their philosophies. They begin to identify the distinctive aspects of women's experiences and locations in male-supremacist social structures which can provide resources needed for the creation of post-androcentric thinking in research, scholarship, and public policy. Such uses of feminist insights remain controversial today, and even among some feminists
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-010-0101-4
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