Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge (Feminist Philosophy Collection (Hardcover))

This collection brings together exciting new works that address today’s key challenges for a feminist power-sensitive approach to knowledge and scientific practice. Taking up such issues as the role of contextualism in epistemology, democracy and dissent in knowledge practices, and epistemic agency under conditions of oppression, the essays build upon well-established work in feminist epistemology and philosophy of science such as standpoint theory and contextual empiricism, offering new interpretations and applications. Many contributions capture the current engagement of feminist epistemologists with the insights and programs of nonfeminist epistemologists, while others focus on the intersections between feminist epistemology and other fields of feminist inquiry such as feminist ethics and metaphysics. An important resource both for students and scholars of feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, with sections of interest to social epistemologists and philosophers of science more generally, this collection represents the broad array of the feminist epistemological work now being done, and the many ways in which feminists incorporate power dynamics into their analyses. It clearly represents both the breadth and the depth of this now well-developed area of feminist scholarship. Feminist Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science In The Twenty-first Century / Heidi E. Grasswick -- Marginalization Of Feminist Epistemology And What That Reveals About Epistemology Proper / Phyllis Rooney -- Contextualism In Feminist Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science / Kristina Rolin -- Altogether Now : A Virtue-theoretic Approach To Pluralism In Feminist Epistemology / Nancy Daukas -- Implications Of The New Materialisms For Feminist Epistemology / Samantha Frost -- Interrogating The Modernity Vs. Tradition Contrast : Whose Science And Technology For Whose Social Progress? / Sandra Harding -- Diversity And Dissent In Science : Does Democracy Always Serve Feminist Aims? / Kristen Intemann -- What Is In It For Me? The Benefits Of Diversity In Scientific Communities / Carla Fehr -- What Knowers Know Well : Women, Work And The Academy / Alison Wylie -- More Than Skin Deep : Situated Communities And Agent Orange In The Aluoi Valley, Vietnam / Nancy Arden Mchugh -- They Treated Him Well : Fact, Fiction, And The Politics Of Knowledge / Lorraine Code -- Wrongful Requests And Strategic Refusals To Understand / Gaile Pohlhaus -- Liberatory Epistemology And The Sharing Of Knowledge : Querying The Norms / Heidi E. Grasswick. Heidi E. Grasswick, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xxx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Marginalization of Feminist Epistemology and What That Reveals About Epistemology ‘Proper’....Pages 3-24 Contextualism in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science....Pages 25-44 Altogether Now: A Virtue-Theoretic Approach to Pluralism in Feminist Epistemology....Pages 45-67 The Implications of the New Materialisms for Feminist Epistemology....Pages 69-83 Interrogating the Modernity vs. Tradition Contrast: Whose Science and Technology for Whose Social Progress?....Pages 85-108 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 Diversity and Dissent in Science: Does Democracy Always Serve Feminist Aims?....Pages 111-132 What Is in It for Me? The Benefits of Diversity in Scientific Communities....Pages 133-155 What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work and the Academy....Pages 157-179 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 More Than Skin Deep: Situated Communities and Agent Orange in the Aluoi Valley, Vietnam....Pages 183-203 ‘They Treated Him Well’: Fact, Fiction, and the Politics of Knowledge....Pages 205-222 Wrongful Requests and Strategic Refusals to Understand....Pages 223-240 Liberatory Epistemology and the Sharing of Knowledge: Querying the Norms....Pages 241-262 Back Matter....Pages 263-268 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. Collects works that address key challenges for a feminist approach to knowledge and scientific practice. This title is suitable for both students and scholars of feminist epistemology and philosophy of science. It offers a mix of contributions from well-established feminist scholars and the next generation of feminist epistemologists.