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This essay delineates the contributions of feminist critiques of science to contemporary reconstructions of empiricism. I argue that three central tenets arise from feminist attention to the dynamics of gender and oppression in the theories and methods of science: 1) a rejection of the science/politics dichotomy; 2) an acknowledgement of the epistemic import of subjective components of knowledge; and 3) a reconfiguration of the subject of knowledge. These three tenets are illustrated and supported through examples from the history of science.
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Tuana, N. The values of science: Empiricism from a feminist perspective. Synthese 104, 441–461 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064509
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064509
Keywords
- Central Tenet
- Feminist Perspective
- Feminist Critique
- Subjective Component
- Epistemic Import