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173Feminist 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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