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226Feminist 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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79What's Really Wrong with Quantitative Risk Assessment?PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986. 1986.Quantitative risk assessment suffers from a variety of problems--some internal and others external. Dale Hattis proposes that the problems of risk assessment can be cured by the development of risk assessment theory. I agree that theory can help address some of the internal problems, such as the failure to date to take the interaction of hazardous substances with other substances in the environment into account. I argue that the external problems such as the manipulation of inherent uncertaintie…Read more
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