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A Feminist Epistemological Framework: Preventing Knowledge Distortions in Scientific Inquiry
Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Scripps Senior Theses Scripps Student Scholarship 2019 A Feminist Epistemological Framework: Preventing Knowledge Distortions in Scientific Inquiry Karina Bucciarelli Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses Part of the Epistemology Commons, Feminist Philosophy Commons, and the Philosophy of Science Commons Recommended Citation Bucciarelli, Karina, "A Feminist Epistemological Framework: Preventing Knowledge Distortions in Scientific Inquiry" (2019). Scripps Senior Theses. 1365. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1365 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Scripps Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scripps Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK: PREVENTING KNOWLEDGE DISTORTIONS IN SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY by KARINA MARTINS BUCCIARELLI SUBMITTED TO SCRIPPS COLLEGE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS PROFESSOR SUSAN CASTAGNETTO PROFESSOR RIMA BASU APRIL 26, 2019 Bucciarelli 2 Acknowledgements First off, I would like to thank my wonderful family for supporting me every step of the way. Mamãe e Papai, obrigada pelo amor e carinho, mil telefonemas, conversas e risadas. Obrigada por não só proporcionar essa educação incrível, mas também me dar um exemplo de como viver. Rafa, thanks for the jokes, the editing help and the spontaneous phone calls. Bela, thank you for the endless time you give to me, for your patience and for your support (even through WhatsApp audios). To my dear friends, thank you for the late study nights, the wild dance parties, the laughs and the endless support. -
Objectivity in the Feminist Philosophy of Science
OBJECTIVITY IN THE FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requisites for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Karen Cordrick Haely, M.A. ***** The Ohio State University 2003 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Professor Louise M. Antony, Adviser Professor Donald C. Hubin _______________________ Professor George Pappas Adviser Philosophy Graduate Program ABSTRACT According to a familiar though naïve conception, science is a rigorously neutral enterprise, free from social and cultural influence, but more sophisticated philosophical views about science have revealed that cultural and personal interests and values are ubiquitous in scientific practice, and thus ought not be ignored when attempting to understand, describe and prescribe proper behavior for the practice of science. Indeed, many theorists have argued that cultural and personal interests and values must be present in science (and knowledge gathering in general) in order to make sense of the world. The concept of objectivity has been utilized in the philosophy of science (as well as in epistemology) as a way to discuss and explore the various types of social and cultural influence that operate in science. The concept has also served as the focus of debates about just how much neutrality we can or should expect in science. This thesis examines feminist ideas regarding how to revise and enrich the concept of objectivity, and how these suggestions help achieve both feminist and scientific goals. Feminists offer us warnings about “idealized” concepts of objectivity, and suggest that power can play a crucial role in determining which research programs get labeled “objective”. -
PN Edwards CV
Curriculum Vitae PAUL N. EDWARDS Center for International Security and Cooperation (650) 725-2707 (office) C226 Encina Hall (206) 337-1523 (fax) 616 Serra St. [email protected] Stanford University profiles.stanford.edu/paul-edwards Stanford, CA 94305-6165 @AVastMachine PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Director, Program in Science Technology & Society, Stanford University (2019-present) Co-Director, Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (2020-present, funded by Open Philanthropy) William J. Perry Fellow in International Security and Senior Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University (2017-present) Associate Fellow, Center for Innovation in Global Health Affiliate, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources Professor Emeritus, School of Information and Dept. of History, University of Michigan (2018-present) Professor, School of Information and Dept. of History (2010-2018) Director, UM Science, Technology & Society Program (2000-03, 2005-06, 2010-2012) Associate Professor, School of Information (1999-2010) Visiting Professor Sciences Po (Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris), Paris, France (2012-13) Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Sciences (2012) Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands (2007) Visiting Scholar University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (2003-04) University of Melbourne, Australia (2001) Senior Research Scholar, Program in Science, Technology & Society, Stanford University (1997-1998) Director, Information Technology & -
2011-12-Faculty-Excellence
During the 2012 Commencement, Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley recognized retiring Dean of Faculty Alan Jones for his 11 years of service, the longest tenure of a dean in Pitzer’s history. Her summary of Jones’ contributions to the College read like a roll call of Pitzer’s greatest accomplishments over the past decade. In 11 years, Jones hired 54 percent of Pitzer’s tenure-track faculty and created about a dozen new tenure-track positions. During his administration, Pitzer established the 150-acre Firestone Center for Restoration Ecology in Costa Rica and paved the way for the Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability. He oversaw the formation of Pitzer’s Vaccine Development Institute, the Institute for Global Local Action and Study, the Ruth and Lee Munroe Center for Social Inquiry, the Intercollegiate Neuroscience Program, the Intercollegiate Media Studies program, the Intercollegiate Environmental Analysis program, the Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies program, the Pitzer Art Galleries and the Native Summer Pipeline to College project. A Vietnam War veteran himself, Jones helped increase the number of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans enrolled at Pitzer. As he ushered in these innovative, interdisciplinary programs, he also managed to attend 3,544 standing committee meetings, teach 13 classes and read 2,082 student names at Commencement, hailing more than 40 percent of The College’s graduates as they embarked on their post-Pitzer life. The psychology and neuroscience professor arrived at Pitzer in 1986 and mixed academic and administrative successes throughout his career. He co-founded the Pitzer in Ontario program and was the founding director for the Community Engagement Center, formerly the Center for California Cultural and Social Issues. -
Feminist Empiricism Draws in Various Ways
2 FEMINIST EMPIRICISM CATHERINE E. HUNDLEBY eminist empiricism draws in various ways developing new accounts of agency in knowl- on the philosophical tradition of empiri- edge emerges as the second theme in feminist F cism, which can be defined as epistemol- empiricism. ogy that gives primary importance to knowledge Most feminist empiricists employ the meth- based on experience. Feminist demands for atten- odology for developing epistemology known as tion to women’s experiences suggest that empiri- naturalized or naturalist epistemology. Naturalism cism can be a promising resource for developing is controversial, but it welcomes disputation, a feminist account of knowledge. Yet feminists takes up new resources for epistemology on an also value empiricism’s purchase on science and ongoing basis, and encourages multiple approaches the empiricist view that knowers’ abilities depend to the evaluation of knowledge. This pluralism on their experiences and their experiential histo- undercuts naturalism’s and empiricism’s conser- ries, including socialization and psychological vative tendencies and imbues current formula- development. tions of empiricism with radical potential. This chapter explores the attractions of empiricism for feminists. Feminist empiricist analysis ranges from broad considerations about FEMINIST ATTRACTION TO EMPIRICISM popular understandings to technical analysis of narrowly defined scientific fields. Whatever the Empiricism traces in the philosophy of the scope, feminist reworkings of empiricism have global North as far back as Aristotle,1 but it is two central themes. The first theme is the inter- classically associated with the 18th-century play among values in knowledge, especially British philosophers, John Locke, George connecting traditionally recognized empirical Berkeley, and David Hume. -
Developing a Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality
Developing a Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality ANGELA MARTINEZ DY University of Nottingham LEE MARTIN University of Nottingham SUSAN MARLOW University of Nottingham This article identifies philosophical tensions and limitations within contemporary intersectionality theory which, it will be argued, have hindered its ability to explain how positioning in multiple social categories can affect life chances and influence the reproduction of inequality. We draw upon critical realism to propose an augmented conceptual framework and novel methodological approach that offers the potential to move beyond these debates, so as to better enable intersectionality to provide causal explanatory accounts of the ‘lived experiences’ of social privilege and disadvantage. KEYWORDS critical realism, critique, feminism, intersectionality, methodology, ontology Introduction Intersectionality has emerged over the past thirty years as an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing the concurrent impacts of social structures, with a focus on theorizing how belonging to multiple exclusionary social categories can influence political access and equality.1 It conceptualizes the interaction of categories of difference such as gender, race and class at many levels, including individual experience, social practices, institutions and ideologies, and frames the outcomes of these interactions in terms of the distribution and allocation of power.2 As a form of social critique originally rooted in black feminism,3 intersectionality is described by Jennifer -
The Foundation of Feminist Research and Its Distinction from Traditional Research Joanne Ardovini-Brooker, Ph.D
Home | Business|Career | Workplace | Community | Money | International Advancing Women In Leadership Feminist Epistemology: The Foundation of Feminist Research and its Distinction from Traditional Research Joanne Ardovini-Brooker, Ph.D. ARDOVINI-BROOKER, SPRING, 2002 ...feminist epistemologies are the golden keys that unlock the door to feminist research. Once the door is unlocked, a better understanding of the distinctive nature of feminist research can occur. There are many questions surrounding feminist research. The most common question is: “What makes feminist research distinctive from traditional research within the Social Sciences?” In trying to answer this question, we need to examine feminist epistemology and the intertwining nature of epistemology, methodology (theory and analysis of how research should proceed), and methods (techniques for gathering data) utilized by feminist researchers. Feminist epistemology in contrast to traditional epistemologies is the foundation on which feminist methodology is built. In turn, the research that develops from this methodology differs greatly from research that develops from traditional methodology and epistemology. Therefore, I argue that one must have a general understanding of feminist epistemology and methodology before one can understand what makes this type of research unique. Such a foundation will assist us in our exploration of the realm of feminist research, while illuminating the differences between feminist and traditional research. An Introduction to Feminist Epistemology Epistemology is the study of knowledge and how it is that people come to know what they know (Johnson, 1995, p. 97). Originating from philosophy, epistemology comes to us from a number of disciplines, i.e.: sociology, psychology, political science, education, and women’s studies (Duran, 1991, p. -
Experimental Philosophy and Feminist Epistemology: Conflicts and Complements
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 9-2018 Experimental Philosophy and Feminist Epistemology: Conflicts and Complements Amanda Huminski The Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2826 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY AND FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY: CONFLICTS AND COMPLEMENTS by AMANDA HUMINSKI A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Philosophy in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2018 © 2018 AMANDA HUMINSKI All Rights Reserved ii Experimental Philosophy and Feminist Epistemology: Conflicts and Complements By Amanda Huminski This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Philosophy in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. _______________________________ ________________________________________________ Date Linda Martín Alcoff Chair of Examining Committee _______________________________ ________________________________________________ Date Nickolas Pappas Executive Officer Supervisory Committee: Jesse Prinz Miranda Fricker THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii ABSTRACT Experimental Philosophy and Feminist Epistemology: Conflicts and Complements by Amanda Huminski Advisor: Jesse Prinz The recent turn toward experimental philosophy, particularly in ethics and epistemology, might appear to be supported by feminist epistemology, insofar as experimental philosophy signifies a break from the tradition of primarily white, middle-class men attempting to draw universal claims from within the limits of their own experience and research. -
On the Place of Feminist Epistemology in Philosophy of Education
education sciences Article Knowledge for a Common World? On the Place of Feminist Epistemology in Philosophy of Education Claudia Schumann Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm S-106 91, Sweden; [email protected]; Tel.: +46-816-2000 Academic Editor: Andrew Stables Received: 7 January 2016; Accepted: 3 March 2016; Published: 9 March 2016 Abstract: The paper discusses the place of feminist epistemology in philosophy of education. Against frequently raised criticisms, the paper argues that the issues raised by feminist standpoint theory lead neither to a reduction of questions of knowledge to questions of power or politics nor to the endorsement of relativism. Within the on-going discussion in feminist epistemology, we can find lines of argument which provide the grounds for a far more radical critique of the traditional, narrow notion of objectivity, revealing it as inherently flawed and inconsistent and allowing for the defense of a re-worked, broader, more accurate understanding of objectivity. This is also in the interest of developing a strong basis for a feminist critique of problematically biased and repressive epistemological practices which can further be extended to shed light on the way in which knowledge has become distorted through the repression of other non-dominant epistemic standpoints. Thus, requiring a thorough re-thinking of our conceptions of objectivity and rationality, feminist epistemologies need to be carefully considered in order to improve our understanding of what knowledge for a common world implies in the pluralistic and diverse societies of post-traditional modernity in the 21st century. Keywords: feminist epistemology; situated knowledge; objectivity; relativism 1. -
~Ethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is "Strong Objectivity"?
~ethinkingStandpoint Epistemology: What Is "Strong Objectivity"? ~andraHarding "Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges." -Donna Harawayl . Both Ways For almost two decades, feminists have engaged in a complex and harged conversation about objectivity. Its topics have included which inds of knowledge projects have it, which don't, and why they don't; ihether the many different feminisms need it, and if so why they do; nd if it is possible to get it, how to do so.2 This conversation has been >formed by complex and charged prefeminist writings that tend to et stuck in debates between empiricists and intentionalists, objectiv- its and interpretationists, and realists and social constructionists (in- luding p~ststructuralists).~ Most of these feminist discussions have not arisen from attempts ) find new ways either to criticize or carry on the agendas of the isciplines. Frequently they do not take as their problematics the ones ~miliarwithin the disciplines. Instead, these conversations have merged mainly from two different and related concerns. First, what -e the causes of the immense proliferation of theoretically and em- irically sound results of research in biology and the social sciences at have discovered what is not supposed to exist: rampant sexist and ldrocentric bias-"politicsu!-in the dominant scientific (and pop- .ar) descriptions and explanations of nature and social life? To put .e point another way, how should one explain the surprising fact that ~liticallyguided research projects have been able to produce -
Tuning Gender Studies
Tuning Educational Structures in Europe Reference Points for the Design and Delivery of Degree Programmes in Gender Studies Life Long Learning Reference Points for the Design and Delivery of Degree Programmes in Gender Studies Reference Points for the Design and Delivery of Degree Programmes in Gender Studies Tuning Educational Structures in Europe The name Tuning was chosen for the project to refl ect the idea that universities do not look for uniformity in their degree programmes or any sort of unifi ed, prescriptive or defi nitive European cur- ricula but simply for points of reference, convergence and common understanding. The protection of the rich diversity of European education has been paramount in the Tuning Project from the very start and the project in no way seeks to restrict the independence of academic and subject special- ists, or undermine local and national academic authority. The Tuning Project is supported by the European Commission through the Socrates and Tempus programmes (of the Directorate-General for Education and Culture) This publication refl ects the views of the authors only, and the European Com- mission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. © Tuning Project Although all material that has been developed as part of the Tuning Project is owned by its formal participants, other Higher Education Institutions are free to test and use the material after publication, provided that the source is ac- knowledged. No part of this publication, including the cover design, may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, whether electronical, chemical, mechanical, optical, by recording or photocopying, without prior permission of the publisher. -
Making Sense of 'Intersectionality'
OCCASIONAL PAPER Making sense of ‘intersectionality’ A manual for lovers of people and forests Carol J. Pierce Colfer Bimbika Sijapati Basnett Markus Ihalainen OCCASIONAL PAPER 184 Making sense of ‘intersectionality’ A manual for lovers of people and forests Carol J. Pierce Colfer CIFOR Cornell University Bimbika Sijapati Basnett CIFOR Markus Ihalainen CIFOR Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Occasional Paper 184 © 2018 Center for International Forestry Research Content in this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ISBN 978-602-387-069-1 DOI: 10.17528/cifor/006793 Colfer CJP, Basnett BS and Ihalainen M. 2018. Making sense of ‘intersectionality’: A manual for lovers of people and forests. Occasional Paper 184. Bogor, Indonesia: CIFOR. Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/CIFOR Yordana Yawate carries a sack of sago pith as her husband Silas Matoke harvests sago known as ‘pangkur’ on the banks of the Tuba River in Honitetu village, West Seram Regency, Maluku Province, Indonesia. CIFOR Jl. CIFOR, Situ Gede Bogor Barat 16115 Indonesia T +62 (251) 8622-622 F +62 (251) 8622-100 E [email protected] cifor.org We would like to thank all funding partners who supported this research through their contributions to the CGIAR Fund. For a full list of the ‘CGIAR Fund’ funding partners please see: http://www.cgiar.org/our-funders/ Any views expressed in this publication are those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of CIFOR, the editors, the authors’ institutions, the financial sponsors or the reviewers.