The status of universalism has been much debated by feminists at the end of the twentieth century. Poststructuralist feminism is readily positioned in these debates as antagonistic to normative universalism. It is criticized as such: how is injustice to be judged and condemned if contestation and the openness of ungrounded universalism are the only ideals? This paper is a ‘sub-philosophical’ en...

Neural constructivists have proclaimed, on the basis of arguments which it is suggested in the following are unconvincing, a view of the nervous system which has little place for innate knowledge relating to speciic domains. In this paper an alternative position is developed, which by instantiating innate knowledge in a exible manner provides a more credible alternative. It invokes dynamical sy...

> Context • Radical constructivism claims that we have no final truth criteria for establishing one ontology over another. This leaves us with the question of how we can come to know anything in a viable manner. According to von Glasersfeld, radical constructivism is a theory of knowledge rather than a philosophy of the world in itself because we do not have access to a human-independent world....

Social constructivism in the international relations theory (IRT) is youngest paradigm, which, together with neorealism and neoliberalism, one of three most popular theoretical patterns among specialists. This paradigm explains global transformations regional noticeable changes by studying social construction reality. Key concepts are identity, which shapes interests actors, intersubjectivity c...

There are a variety of ways that one could examine feminist contributions to anthropology and sociology within the context of a handbook on philosophy of science. The first and most obvious is to simply catalogue the various contributions that feminism has made to each of these disciplines, in part through the increasing presence of women in these fields. Sandra Harding refers to this approach ...

In the wake of intersectionality's trans-disciplinary institutionalization, this Article considers how the meaning and practice of intersectionality has changed in different historical moments. This Article studies three periods in black feminism's long history of doing intersectional work: an early period (1968-87) marked by a broad conception of intersectionality, the watershed years (1988-90...

Theories of gender and race in mathematics education predominately remain unchanged recent years (Damarin, 2008; Parks & Schmeichel, 2012), with feminism not always seen as relevant to education. New theories methodologies related create possibilities reinvigorate research offer opportunities for students at the margins be read mathematically powerful. In this paper, I propose feminist poststru...

Feminist theories in management and organization studies, each with their own ontological epistemological assumptions, offer critical perspectives of the status quo to challenge our idea progress discipline, yet there is limited engagement ideas, theories, or practices from lived experiences Global South women. Decolonial feminism engages debates pertaining coloniality/modernity indigenous iden...