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349Can There Be A Feminist Science?Hypatia 2 (3). 1987.This paper explores a number of recent proposals regarding "feminist science" and rejects a content-based approach in favor of a process-based approach to characterizing feminist science. Philosophy of science can yield models of scientific reasoning that illuminate the interaction between cultural values and ideology and scientific inquiry. While we can use these models to expose masculine and other forms of bias, we can also use them to defend the introduction of assumptions grounded in femini…Read more
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52Alan Sokal's “transgressing boundariesInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11 (2). 1997.No abstract
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55Knowledge, bodies, and values: Reproductive technologies and their scientific contextInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 35 (3-4). 1992.This essay sets human reproductive technologies in the context of biological research exploiting the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule in the early 1950s. By setting these technological developments in this research context and then setting the research in the framework of a philosophical analysis of the role of social values in scientific inquiry, it is possible to develop a perspective on these technologies and the aspirations they represent that is relevant to the concerns of the…Read more
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97Scientific Pluralism (edited book)Univ of Minnesota Press. 1956.Scientific pluralism is an issue at the forefront of philosophy of science. This landmark work addresses the question, Can pluralism be advanced as a general, philosophical interpretation of science?
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