Who Knows: From Quine to a Feminist Empiricism

by Lynn Hankinson Nelson

Book Overview

In the past fifteen years, feminist science critics have, for the most part, rejected empiricism because of its identification with positivism. Various assumptions of both empiricists and feminists, including the "tenet" that individualism is an essential element of empiricism, have led to the belief that feminist science criticism is not a part of science. This view continues the myth that science is an autonomous and apolitical activity. Building...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877226474
• ISBN13: 9780877226475
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.