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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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21Who Knows: From Quine to a Feminist Empiricism. Lynn Hankinson NelsonIsis 83 (1): 179-179. 1992.
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42Data, PleaseHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 3 (1): 144-146. 2013.A call for serious study of the status of women in the philosophy of science subfield, study that goes beyond simple demographic data to more sophisticated bibliometric data that looks at inclusion in textbooks, citation patterns, the history of topic and idea attribution, etc.
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187The 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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65Biological effects of low level radiation: Values, dose-response models, risk estimatesSynthese 81 (3). 1989.Predictions about the health risks of low level radiation combine two sorts of measures. One estimates the amount and kinds of radiation released into the environment, and the other estimates the adverse health effects. A new field called health physics integrates and applies nuclear physics to cytology to supply both these estimates. It does so by first determining the kinds of effects different types of radiation produce in biological organisms, and second, by monitoring the extent of these ef…Read more
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Marjorie Grene's philosophical naturalismIn R. E. Auxier & L. E. Hahn (eds.), The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene, La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. pp. 29--83. 2002.Marjorie Grene was a philosophical naturalist avant la lettre. This essay surveys some problems with contemporary (late 20th century) naturalism, argues that Grene’s criticisms of ancient epistemologies are applicable to their contemporary versions, and finds an alternative, philosophically richer, naturalism in Grene’s appropriation of J.J. Gibson’s ideas on perception and in her insistence on treating humans as no less a part of nature than plants and other animals.
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255How values can be good for scienceIn Peter K. Machamer & Gereon Wolters (eds.), Science, Values, and Objectivity, University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 127--142. 2004.
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26Special Report: Women in PhilosophyProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 60 (4). 1987.
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19Evidence in the sciences of behaviorIn P. Achinstein (ed.), Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories & Applications, The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005.
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82The Social Life of Scientific Theories: A Case Study from Behavioral Sciences (review)Biological Theory 7 (4): 390-400. 2013.This article reports on the third phase of a comparative epistemological, ontological, and social analysis of a variety of approaches to investigating human behavior. In focusing on the fate of scientific ideas once they leave the context in which they were developed, I hope not only to show that their communication for a broader audience imposes a shape on their interrelations different than they seem to have in the research context, but also to suggest that a study comparing different approach…Read more
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5Subjects, Power, and KnowledgeIn Janet A. Kourany (ed.), The Gender of Science, Prentice-hall. pp. 310-21. 2002.
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77Comments on science and social responsibility: A role for philosophy of science?Philosophy of Science 64 (4): 179. 1997.Each of the three papers offers a different model for the role philosophers of science might play in consideration of the relations of science to society. These comments address common themes in the three papers, articulate further questions for each, and suggest some historical shifts that require different forms of philosophical engagement now than in the early part of the century
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25Pornography, oppression, and freedom : a closer lookIn Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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64Theoretical Pluralism and the Scientific Study of BehaviorIn Stephen Kellert, Helen Longino & C. Kenneth Waters (eds.), Scientific Pluralism, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 102-31. 2006.
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56Interpretation Versus Explanation in the Critique of ScienceScience in Context 10 (1): 113-128. 1997.
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65Foregrounding the BackgroundPhilosophy of Science 83 (5): 647-661. 2016.Practice-centric and theory-centric approaches in philosophy of science are described and contrasted. The contrast is developed through an examination of their different treatments of the underdetermination problem. The practice-centric approach is illustrated by a summary of comparative research on approaches in the biology of behavior. The practice-centric approach is defended against charges that it encourages skepticism regarding the sciences.
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64Whither philosophy of science?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 36 (4): 774-778. 2005.A response to Philip Mirowski’s criticism of 20th century philosophy of science as in collusion with cold war US politics. Only a very narrow view of the work in our field could support such a critique.
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184Evidence and hypothesis: An analysis of evidential relationsPhilosophy of Science 46 (1): 35-56. 1979.The subject of this essay is the dependence of evidential relations on background beliefs and assumptions. In Part I, two ways in which the relation between evidence and hypothesis is dependent on such assumptions are discussed and it is shown how in the context of appropriately differing background beliefs what is identifiable as the same state of affairs can be taken as evidence for conflicting hypotheses. The dependence of evidential relations on background beliefs is illustrated by discussio…Read more
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7The fate of knowledge in social theories of scienceIn Frederick F. Schmitt (ed.), Socializing Epistemology: The Social Dimensions of Knowledge, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 135--158. 1994.
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615Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific InquiryPrinceton University Press. 1990.This is an important book precisely because there is none other quite like it.
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1Theoretical Pluralism and the Scientific Study of Behavior (edited book)University of Minnesota Press. 2006.
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60InferringPhilosophy Research Archives 4 17-26. 1978.This paper is a discussion of the nature of inferring and focusses on the relation between reasons for belief and causes of belief. Two standard approaches to the analysis of inference, the epistemological and the psychological, are identified and discussed. While both approaches incorporate insights concerning, inference, counterexamples show that neither provides by itself an adequate account. A third account is developed and recommended on the grounds that it encompasses the essential insight…Read more
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73James Tabery Helen Longino’s Studying Human Behavior is an overdue effort at a nonpartisan evaluation of the many scientific disciplines that study the nature and nurture of human behavior, arguing for the acceptance of the strengths and weaknesses of all approaches. After years of conflict, Longino makes the pluralist case for peaceful coexistence. Her analysis of the approaches raises the following question: how are we to understand the pluralistic relationship among the peacefully coexisting …Read more
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