Scientific knowledge is widely considered to be the most certain
kind of knowledge, free from social or cultural bias. This freedom
from bias or values, the objectivity of science, is a key reason
why scientific knowledge holds its privileged position in society.
Karen Cordrick Haely argues that feminist critics of science
present compelling reasons to eschew the idea that science is, or
should be, purely objective in the sense commonly understood to
mean 'value-free'. This book examines the most prominent feminist
ideas regarding how to revise and enrich the concept of objectivity
such that we can understand, though not necessarily eliminate, the
role of cultural and social interests as they play a role in
science. Haely argues that these views of objectivity ought to be
treated as a network of ideas, rather than as stand-alone solutions
to the complexities of forming a cohesive philosophical view of
scientific objectivity. The book also presents a landscape of
several issues that are crucial for understanding the intersection
of feminism and science.
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