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Discovering Reality

Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

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Editors:
  1. Sandra Harding

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, University of Delaware, USA

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  2. Merrill B. Hintikka

    1. Dept. of Philosophy, Florida State University, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 161)

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Are Western epistemology, metaphysics, methodology and the philosophy of science grounded only in men's distinctive understandings of themselves, others, and nature? Does this less than human understanding distort our models of reason and of scientific inquiry? In different ways, the papers in this collection explore the evidence for these increasingly reasonable and intriguing questions. They identify how it is distinctively masculine perspectives on masculine experience which have shaped the most fundamental and formal aspects of systematic thought in philosophy and the natural and social sciences - precisely the aspects of thought believed most gender-neutral. They show how these understandings ground Aristotle's biology and metaphysics; the very definition of the problems of philosophy in Plato, Descartes, Hobbes and Rousseau; the `adversary method' which is the paradigm of philosophic and scientific reasoning; principles of individuation in philosophical ontology and the philosophy of language; individualistic assumptions in psychology; functionalism in sociological and biological theory; evolutionary theory; the methodology of political science; Marxist political economy; and conceptions of `objective inquiry' in the social and natural sciences. These essays also begin to identify for us the distictive aspects of women's experience which can provide the resources needed for the creation of a truly human understanding.
Audience: The book will be of interest to those involved in epistemology, and philosophy of the natural and social sciences, as well as feminist scholars in philosophy. The work will also be of value for theorists, methodologists, and feminist scholars in the natural and social sciences.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Woman is Not a Rational Animal: On Aristotle’S Biology of Reproduction

    • Lynda Lange
    Pages 1-15

  3. Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul

    • Elizabeth V. Spelman
    Pages 17-30

  4. The Unit of Political Analysis: Our Aristotelian Hangover

    • Judith Hicks Stiehm
    Pages 31-43

  5. Have Only Men Evolved?

    • Ruth Hub Bard
    Pages 45-69

  6. Evolution and Patriarchal Myths of Scarcity and Competition

    • Michael Gross, Mary Beth Averill
    Pages 71-95

  7. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science

    • Ann Palmeri
    Pages 97-119

  8. The Trivialization of the Notion of Equality

    • Louise Marcil-Lacoste
    Pages 121-137

  9. How Can Language be Sexist?

    • Merrill B. Hintikka, Jaakko Hintikka
    Pages 139-148

  10. A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method

    • Janice Moulton
    Pages 149-164

  11. The Man of Professional Wisdom

    • Kathryn Pyne Addelson
    Pages 165-186

  12. Gender and Science

    • Evelyn Fox Keller
    Pages 187-205

  13. The Mind’S Eye

    • Evelyn Fox Keller, Christine R. Grontkowski
    Pages 207-224

  14. Individualism and the Objects of Psychology

    • Naomi Scheman
    Pages 225-244

  15. Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics

    • Jane Flax
    Pages 245-281

  16. The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

    • Nancy C. M. Hartsock
    Pages 283-310

  17. Why Has the Sex/Gender System Become Visible Only Now?

    • Sandra Harding
    Pages 311-324

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 325-332
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Philosophy, University of Delaware, USA

    Sandra Harding

  • Dept. of Philosophy, Florida State University, USA

    Merrill B. Hintikka

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Discovering Reality

  • Book Subtitle: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

  • Editors: Sandra Harding, Merrill B. Hintikka

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48017-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1538-8Published: 28 February 1983

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48017-1Published: 30 December 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 332

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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