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This essay forges links between Popperians and feminists by considering the connections between Donna Haraway's “situated knowledge” and Karl R. Popper's “situational logic.” It is concerned with the political commitments behind methodological issues, with the degree to which there can be a Popperian contribution to the feminist vision of a successor science, and with ways of dealing with, while not resolving, the political differences between socialist feminists and libertarian Popperians.
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Sassower, R. The politics of situating knowledge: An exercise in social epistemology. Argumentation 8, 185–198 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00733369
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