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1995 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0847676358 | PDF | 77 MB
Drawing on recent advances in analytic epistemology, feminist scholarship and philosophy of science, the author of this work proposes a feminist theory of knowledge.Jane Duran begins at the intersection betweenrecent work in naturalized contemporarytheory of knowledge and feministtheory. Her account not only elaborates onthe possibility of rigorous feminist epistemology,but serves as an introduction to theandrocentrism inherent in so muchepistemological theorizing itself. Part Onespells out what has counted as epistemologyin the past, and why it is androcentric. InPart Two, Duran carefully and thoroughlydevelops a feminist theory of knowledgebased on the moves in contemporarytheorizing that are now available to us. PartThree ties together the feminist views fromother disciplines or modes of viewing. PartFour reviews the arguments of the precedingchapters and prognosticates about the futureof feminist epistemology, paying special attentionto the most recent work in cognitionand philosophy of mind.