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Discovering Reality - Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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Discovering Reality - Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
Series: Synthese Library, 161
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Are Western epistemology, metaphysics, methodology and the
philosophy of science grounded only in men's distinctive
understandings of themselves, others, and nature? Does this less
than human understanding distort our models of reason and of
scientific inquiry? In different ways, the papers in this
collection explore the evidence for these increasingly reasonable
and intriguing questions. They identify how it is distinctively
masculine perspectives on masculine experience which have shaped
the most fundamental and formal aspects of systematic thought in
philosophy and the natural and social sciences - precisely the
aspects of thought believed most gender-neutral. They show how
these understandings ground Aristotle's biology and metaphysics;
the very definition of the problems of philosophy in Plato,
Descartes, Hobbes and Rousseau; the adversary method' which is the
paradigm of philosophic and scientific reasoning; principles of
individuation in philosophical ontology and the philosophy of
language; individualistic assumptions in psychology; functionalism
in sociological and biological theory; evolutionary theory; the
methodology of political science; Marxist political economy; and
conceptions of objective inquiry' in the social and natural
sciences. These essays also begin to identify for us the distictive
aspects of women's experience which can provide the resources
needed for the creation of a truly human understanding. Audience:
The book will be of interest to those involved in epistemology, and
philosophy of the natural and social sciences, as well as feminist
scholars in philosophy. The work will also be of value for
theorists, methodologists, and feminist scholars in the natural and
social sciences.
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