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50The open end: Social naturalism, feminist values and the integrity of epistemologySocial Epistemology 16 (3). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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11The Epistemological Evaluation of Oppositional SecretsHypatia 20 (4): 44-58. 2005.Although political values guide people who take advice from standpoint epistemolo-gies in deciding whether to reveal secrets used to resist oppression, these decisions can also be understood and evaluated in purely cognitive or epistemological terms. When political considerations direct us to preserve a secret, the cognitive value progressively diminishes because the view of the world projected by the secret is increasingly vulnerable.
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Nancy C.M. Hartsock, The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays (review)Philosophy in Review 21 261-263. 2001.
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1578Feminist Perspectives on ArgumentationStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2021.Feminists note an association of arguing with aggression and masculinity and question the necessity of this connection. Arguing also seems to some to identify a central method of philosophical reasoning, and gendered assumptions and standards would pose problems for the discipline. Can feminine modes of reasoning provide an alternative or supplement? Can overarching epistemological standards account for the benefits of different approaches to arguing? These are some of the prospects for argument…Read more
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18The deep operation of androcentrism in scientific argumentation demands recognition as a form of fallacy. On Walton’s account, fallacies are serious mistakes in argumentation that employ presumptions acceptable in other circumstances. There are only isolated cases in which androcentric pre-sumptions are acceptable, and I argue that androcentrism affects an overarching theme of generalization in science rather than an isolated scheme. Androcentrism is related to other ways of treating privileged …Read more
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
20th Century Philosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
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Epistemology |
20th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |