Who Knows : from Quine to a Feminist Empiricism.
Nelson, Lynn Hankinson
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Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xi. 401 pp. Index. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780877226475. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY, women's studies. Seller Inventory # 141597
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Title: Who Knows : from Quine to a Feminist ...
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: very good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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In the past fifteen years, feminist science critics have, for the most part, rejected empiricism because of its identification with positivism. Various assumptions of both empiricists and feminists, including the "tenet" that individualism is an essential element of empiricism, have led to the belief that feminist science criticism is not a part of science. This view continues the myth that science is an autonomous and apolitical activity. Building on the work of W.V.0. Quine, Lynn Nelson clears away these obstacles and establishes a framework for a much-needed dialogue between feminist science critics and other scientists and scholars about the nature of science. She makes a case for a feminist empiricism that retains a crucial role for experience, but separates empiricism from individualism.
Following Quine, Nelson argues that empiricism is a theory of evidence and is distinct from empiricist accounts of science that have been built on it. She urges feminists and empiricists to work together to develop a feminist empiricism, a view of science that can account for its obvious success in explaining and predicting experience and can encompass feminist insights into relationships among gender, politics, and science.
Basing her arguments on Quine’s non-foundationalist view that theories are bridges of our own construction, the author insists, as does Quine, that the construction of these bridges is constrained by experience. She determines that individualism is inconsistent with key Quinean positions and that empiricism can survive the demise of individualism. Clearly diverging from Quine, Nelson proposes the view that the evolving network of our theories does and should incorporate political views, including those shaped by, and shaping in turn, our experiences of gender.
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