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77Taking Gender Seriously in Philosophy of SciencePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. 1992.Using the author's social analysis of scientific knowledge, two ways of understanding the importance of gender to the philosophy of science are offered. Given a requirement of openness to multiple critical perspectives, the gender, race and class structure of a scientific community are an important ingredient of its epistemic reliability. Secondly, one can ask whether a gender sensitive scientific community might prefer certain evaluative criteria (or virtues of theory or practice) to others. Si…Read more
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317Science and the Common Good: Thoughts on Philip Kitcher’s S cience, Truth, and DemocracyPhilosophy of Science 69 (4): 560-568. 2002.In Science, Truth, and Democracy, Philip Kitcher develops the notion of well-ordered science: scientific inquiry whose research agenda and applications are subject to public control guided by democratic deliberation. Kitcher's primary departure from his earlier views involves rejecting the idea that there is any single standard of scientific significance. The context-dependence of scientific significance opens up many normative issues to philosophical investigation and to resolution through demo…Read more
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486Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Values in Science: Rethinking the DichotomyIn Lynn Hankinson Nelson & Jack Nelson (eds.), Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 39--58. 1996.Underdetermination arguments support the conclusion that no amount of empirical data can uniquely determine theory choice. The full content of a theory outreaches those elements of it (the observational elements) that can be shown to be true (or in agreement with actual observations).2 A number of strategies have been developed to minimize the threat such arguments pose to our aspirations to scientific knowledge. I want to focus on one such strategy: the invocation of additional criteria drawn f…Read more
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12The Pluralist StanceIn ¸ Itekellersetal:Sp, . 2006.This essay introduces the volume Scientific Pluralism (Volume 19 of Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science). Varieties of recent pluralisms are surveyed, the difference between monism and pluralism vis a vis the sciences is clarified, and the authors’ notion of scientific pluralism is advanced.
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111Norms and naturalism: Comments on Miriam Solomon's social empiricismPerspectives on Science 16 (3). 2008.Miriam Solomon's social empiricism is marked by emphasis on community level rationality in science and the refusal to impose a distinction between the epistemic and the non-epistemic character of factors ("decision vectors") that incline scientists for or against a theory. While she attempts to derive some norms from the analysis of cases, her insistent naturalism undermines her effort to articulate norms for the (appropriate) distribution of decision vectors.
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53Review of Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen E. Longino: Feminism & Science (Oxford Readings in Feminism) (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (4): 618-620. 1997.
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30Who Knows: From Quine to a Feminist Empiricism by Lynn Hankinson Nelson (review)Isis 83 179-179. 1992.
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174Feminist Epistemology at Hypatia's 25th AnniversaryHypatia 25 (4): 733-741. 2010.This essay surveys twenty-five years of feminist epistemology in the pages of Hypatia. Feminist contributions have addressed the affective dimensions of knowledge; the natures of justification, rationality, and the cognitive agent; and the nature of truth. They reflect thinking from both analytic and continental philosophical traditions and offer a rich tapestry of ideas from which to continue challenging tradition and forging analytical tools for the problems ahead
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25The death of nature: Women, ecology, and the scientific revolutionEnvironmental Ethics 3 (4): 365-369. 1981.
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3Beyond “Bad Science‘Science, Technology, and Human Values 8 (1): 7-17. 1983.It is conventional to treat instances of research where social values have played a role as “bad science.” This article discusses instances of research that meet standards of “good science”, but that are nevertheless inflected by social values and uses these examples to argue that values can enter into research without thereby disqualifying the scientific status of the research. Other categories are needed to accommodate this kind of research.
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89Perilous thoughts: comment on van FraassenPhilosophical Studies 143 (1): 25-32. 2009.Bas van Fraassen’s empiricist reading of Perrin’s achievement invites the question: whose doubts about atoms did Perrin put to rest? This comment recontextualizes the argument and applies the notion of empirical grounding to some contemporary work in behavioral biology.
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Scientific Pluralism, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Vol 19) (edited book)University of Minnesota Press. 2006.
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18Maurice A. Finocchiaro, "History of Science as Explanation" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 13 (2): 279. 1975.
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41What's So Great about an Objective Concept of Evidence?In Gregory J. Morgan (ed.), Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein, Oxford University Press. pp. 124. 2011.
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17Foundations and Methods From Mathematics to Neuroscience: Essays Inspired by Patrick Suppes (edited book)Stanford Univ Center for the Study. 2015."Center for the Study of Language and Information, Leland Stanford Junior University."
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80Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and SexualityUniversity of Chicago Press. 2013.In Studying Human Behavior, Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of “nature versus nurture.” Rather than supporting one side or another or attempting..
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96Circles of Reason: Some Feminist Reflections on Reason and RationalityEpisteme 2 (1): 79-88. 2005.Rationality and reason are topics so fraught for feminists that any useful reflection on them requires some prior exploration of the difficulties they have caused. One of those difficulties for feminists and, I suspect, for others in the margins of modernity, is the rhetoric of reason – the ways reason is bandied about as a qualification differentially bestowed on different types of person. Rhetorically, it functions in different ways depending on whether it is being denied or affirmed. In this …Read more
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Edited volumes-women, gender and science. New directionsHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 20 (3): 382. 1998.
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6Navigating the Social Turn in Philosophy of ScienceFilozofia 64 (4): 312-323. 2009.Over the last three decades the role of social values in science has been the topic issue in the disputes of the philosophers of science against the representatives of science studies. Due to the key status of sciences in developed countries and societies it is necessary, so the author, not only to acknowledge, that cognitive and epistemic practices have their social dimensions, but also to make the practices of the research communities themselves open for critical examination from different per…Read more
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239In Search Of Feminist EpistemologyThe Monist 77 (4): 472-485. 1994.The proposal of anything like a feminist epistemology has, I think, two sources. Feminist scholars have demonstrated how the scientific cards have been stacked against women for centuries. Given that the sciences are taken as the epitome of knowledge and rationality in modern Western societies, the game looks desperate unless some ways of knowing different from those that have validated misogyny and gynephobia can be found. Can we know the world without hating ourselves? This is one of the quest…Read more
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21Who Knows: From Quine to a Feminist Empiricism. Lynn Hankinson NelsonIsis 83 (1): 179-179. 1992.
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41Feminist Epistemology as a Local EpistemologyAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 71 19-54. 1997.Feminist scholars advocate the adoption of distinctive values in research. While this constitutes a coherent alternative to the more frequently cited cognitive or scientific values, they cannot be taken to supplant those more orthodox values. Instead, each set might better be understood as a local epistemology guiding research answerable to different cognitive goals. Feminist scholars advocate the adoption of distinctive values in research. While this constitutes a coherent alternative to the…Read more
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188The Fate of KnowledgePrinceton University Press. 2001."--Richard Grandy, Rice University "This is the first compelling diagnosis of what has gone awry in the raging 'science wars.
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