Discovering Reality (eBook, PDF)

Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
Redaktion: Harding, Sandra; Hintikka, Merrill B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401001014
• Artikelnr.: 44177188

Inhaltsangabe

Woman Is Not a Rational Animal: On Aristotle's Biology of Reproduction.- Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul.- The Unit of Political Analysis: Our Aristotelian Hangover.- Have Only Men Evolved?.- Evolution and Patriarchal Myths of Scarcity and Competition.- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science.- The Trivialization of the Notion of Equality.- How Can Language Be Sexist?.- A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method.- The Man of Professional Wisdom.- Gender and Science.- The Mind's Eye.- Individualism and the Objects of Psychology.- Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics.- The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism.- Why Has the Sex/Gender System Become Visible Only Now?.- Index of Names.