Overview
- Third generation feminist work on today's key challenges for a power-sensitive feminist approach to questions of knowledge and scientific practice
- Addressing the many ways in which feminists incorporate power dynamics into their analyses
- Goes beyond the classic divisions of feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint theory, and feminist postmodernism, offering new interpretations and new applications of these approaches
- Includes a contribution from feminist epistemology pioneer Sandra Harding
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Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw. In addition to a recognition of the power of knowledge itself and its effects on women’s lives, a central feature of feminist epistemology and philosophy of science has been the attention they draw to the role of power dynamics within knowledge-seeking practices and the implications of these dynamics for our understandings of knowledge, science, and epistemology.
Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge collects new works that address today’s key challenges for a power-sensitive feminist approach to questions of knowledge and scientific practice. The essays build upon established work in feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, offering new developments in the fields, and representing the broad array of the feminist work now being done and the many ways in which feminists incorporate power dynamics into their analyses.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Intersections: Feminism, Epistemology, and Science Studies
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Democracy and Diversity in Knowledge Practices
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Contexts of Oppression: Accountability in Knowing
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Book Subtitle: Power in Knowledge
Editors: Heidi E. Grasswick
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6835-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6834-8Published: 18 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9504-4Published: 21 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6835-5Published: 16 May 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 268
Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ethics, Metaphysics