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An important new monograph combining the groundbreaking innovation of American pragmatism with the daring vision of feminist epistemologies and exploring common ground between the two fields.
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Examines an important but overlooked theoretical component in Dewey's philosophical system.
Compares two giants in the American philosophical tradition and will be of interest to those working in women's studies, philosophy and cultural anthropology.
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Feminist philosophy identifies tensions within mainstream theories of knowledge. To create a more egalitarian epistemology, solutions to these problems have been as diverse as the traditions of philosophy out of which feminists continue to emerge. This book considers two equally formidable approaches theorized by Louise Antony and Lynn Hankinson Nelson.
The American philosopher W.V.O. Quine locates knowledge as a branch of empirical science. Shuford shows how both Antony and Nelson use Quine's 'naturalized epistemology' to create empirically robust feminist epistemology. However, Shuford argues that neither can include physical embodiment as an important epistemic variable. The book argues that John Dewey's theory of inquiry extends beyond Quine's insight that knowledge must be interrogated as an empirical matter. Because Dewey insists that all aspects of experience must be subject to the experimental openness that is the hallmark of scientific reasoning, Shuford concludes that physical embodiment must play an important part in knowledge claims.
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Alexandra L. Shuford is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon, USA.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Quine's Naturalized Epistemology
3. Antony's Feminist Empiricism
4. Nelson's Feminist Empiricism
5. Dewey's Theory of Inquiry
6. Feminist Pragmatist Inquiry
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