Objectivity in feminist epistemology

The Market for Feminist Epistemology

Record: 1 Title: The market for feminist epistemology. Authors: Baber, Harriet Source: Monist; Oct94, Vol. 77 Issue 4, p403, 21p Document Type: Article Subject Terms: *KNOWLEDGE, Theory of *FEMINIST theory Abstract: Focuses on the feminist paradigm of epistemology. Failure of traditional theories of knowledge to account for features of women's experience; Empirical assumptions about gender diff...

Feminist Epistemology in a Polanyian Perspective

Objectivity and the Double Standard for Feminist Epistemologies

The emphasis on the limitations of objectivity, in specific guises and networks, has been a continuing theme of contemporary analytic philosophy for the past few decades. The popular sport of baiting feminist philosophers into pointing to what's left out of objective knowledge, or into describing what methods, exactly, they would offer to replace the powerful "objective" methods grounding scien...

Connectionist Synthetic Epistemology: Requirements for the Development of Objectivity

A connectionist system that is capable of learning about the spatial structure of a simple world is used for the purposes of synthetic epistemology: the creation and analysis of artificial systems in order to clarify philosophical issues that arise in the explanation of how agents, both natural and artificial, represent the world. In this case, the issues to be clarified focus on the content of...

Using a Chicana Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research

In this article, Dolores Delgado Bernal outlines a Chicana feminist epistemological framework that is new to the field of educational research. This framework, which draws from the existing work of Chicana feminists, questions the notions of objectivity and a universal foundation of knowledge. A Chicana feminist epistemology is also grounded in the life experiences of Chicanas and involves Chic...