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Discovering reality : feminist perspectives on epistemology, metaphysics, methodology, and philosophy of science / edited by Sandra Harding and Merrill B. Hintikka.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Synthese library ; v. 161.
- Synthese library ; v. 161
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism.
- Philosophy--History.
- Philosophy.
- History.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Science.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 332 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]
- Summary:
- This collection of essays, first published two decades ago, presents central feminist critiques and analyses of natural and social sciences and their philosophies. This work provides a splendid opportunity for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in philosophy and the social sciences to explore some of the most intriguing and controversial challenges to disciplinary projects and to public policy today.
- Contents:
- Woman Is Not a Rational Animal: On Aristotle's Biology of Reproduction / Lynda Lange 1
- Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul / Elizabeth V. Spelman 17
- The Unit of Political Analysis: Our Aristotelian Hangover / Judith Hicks Stiehm 31
- Have Only Men Evolved? / Ruth Hubbard 45
- Evolution and Patriarchal Myths of Scarcity and Competition / Michael Gross, Mary Beth Averill 71
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science / Ann Palmeri 97
- The Trivialization of the Notion of Equality / Louise Marcil-Lacoste 121
- How Can Language Be Sexist? / Merrill B. Hintikka, Jaakko Hintikka 139
- A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method / Janice Moulton 149
- The Man of Professional Wisdom / Kathryn Pyne Addelson 165
- Gender and Science / Evelyn Fox Keller 187
- The Mind's Eye / Evelyn Fox Keller, Christine R. Grontkowski 207
- Individualism and the Objects of Psychology / Naomi Scheman 225
- Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics / Jane Flax 245
- The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism / Nancy C.M. Hartsock 283
- Why Has the Sex/Gender System Become Visible Only Now? / Sandra Harding 311.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1402013183
- 1402013191
- OCLC:
- 52257807
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