Hypatia articles from January 2004

Hypatia archives from January 2004

Introduction: Hypatia special issue on feminist science studies.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... Feminist analyses of science have grown dramatically in scope, diversity, and impact in the years since Nancy Tuana edited the two-volume issue of Hypatia on "Feminism and Science" (Fall 1987, Spring 1988). What had begun in the 1960s and 1970s...

Uses of value judgments in science: a general argument, with lessons from a case study of feminist research on divorce.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... I. RETHINKING THE UNDERDETERMINATION ARGUMENT FOR VALUE-LADEN SCIENCE Feminist science is science guided by feminist values. To its critics, the very idea of feminist science--or any science guided by moral or political values--is...

A socially relevant philosophy of science? Resources from standpoint theory's controversiality.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... Standpoint theory reemerged in the 1970s and 1980s as a feminist epistemology, philosophy of science, sociology of knowledge, and methodology. (1) It had received enthusiastic attention in the social sciences by 1979 (see Westkott 1979), and...

Logical empiricism, feminism, and Neurath's auxiliary motive.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... For most feminist epistemologists, the logical empiricists have functioned chiefly as foils and bogeymen. Descriptions of them in the feminist literature have been generally unsympathetic, and sometimes inaccurate. This may be a good time to...

Virtue and contingent history: possibilities for feminist epistemology.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION This essay aims to describe feminist projects in the epistemology of science in a way that renders them comprehensible to mainstream epistemologists. I take feminist projects to be those centrally concerned with how gender and...

Having it all: naturalized normativity in feminist science studies.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Understanding the complex relationship between descriptive facts and prescriptive values poses an ongoing challenge for science studies, particularly for the politicized science research engaged in by feminists. In response, a...

Re-radicalizing Nelson's feminist empiricism.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... Recently, Evelyn Fox Keller observed, "individual subjects are as much constituted by social structures as social structures are constituted by individual subjects, and the occlusion of one is as serious an error as the occlusion of the other,...

Barad's feminist naturalism.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... Naturalism is now the predominant metaphilosophy in the English-speaking world. The homages to naturalism offered even by its supposed opponents are the best evidence for its predominance. Here are two illustrative examples. Kantian ethicist...

The promise of feminist reflexivities: developing donna Haraway's project for feminist science studies.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... I think my problem and "our" problem is how to have simultaneously an account of radical historical contingency for all knowledge claims and knowing subjects, a critical practice for recognizing our own "semiotic technologies" for making...

Feminist intersections in science: race, gender and sexuality through the microscope.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... To date, one of the major projects of feminist science studies has been the critique of how assumptions about gender, race, and class become embedded in science through the inherent subjectivity of the human observer. Science is a social...

Coming to understand: orgasm and the epistemology of ignorance.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... It is a common tenet of theorists working in the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) that an account of the conditions that result in scientists accepting apparently true beliefs and theories is as crucial as an analysis of those that...

Feminist history of colonial science.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... Historians like to date things, and we date the origins of feminist history of science to the publication of Carolyn Merchant's Death of Nature (1980), though, of course, Christine de Pisan in the fifteenth century and Christian Harless in the...

Feminist theory in science: working toward a practical transformation.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... REFLECTION Having recently completed my Ph.D. in reproductive neuroendocrinology, I have experienced first-hand the difficulties in keeping the words "feminist" and "scientist" side by side. I spent my graduate years in a lab, working on a...

Objectivity: Feminism, Values, and Science.(Review Essay)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... I. GENDER AND THE OBJECTIVITY OF SCIENCE Gender, Science, and Values: The Gender and Science Reader (2001), an anthology edited by Muriel Lederman and Ingrid Bartsch, is an ambitious and needed collection addressing the role that gender...

Three decades of Feminism in science: from "liberal feminism" and "difference feminism" to gender analysis of science.(Review Essay)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... The title of Londa Schiebinger's Has Feminism Changed Science? (1999) invokes questions which are of interest to feminist philosophers of science: Will the inclusion of more women in scientific fields bring about socially more responsible or...

Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases.(Book Reviews)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases. By ELIZABETH POTTER. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2001. "[S]cience can be influenced by gender and class politics and still be good science" (2001, 172), Elizabeth Potter contends near the end of...

Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation. Edited by MARALEE MAYBERRY, BANU SUBRAMANIAM, AND LISA H. WEASEL. New York: Routledge. 2001. What does research about female aggression among song sparrows have to do with breast cancer support...

Notes on contributors.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... ELIZABETH ANDERSON is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (1993) and various articles on value theory, democratic theory, philosophy of law and...

Guidelines for contributors/calls for papers.
January 1, 2004... Hypatia solicits papers on all topics in feminist philosophy. Please submit your paper, saved in Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect format, via e-mail attachment to Hilde Lindemann Nelson, hypatia@msu.edu. Articles may vary in length,...

Announcements.
January 1, 2004... Society for the Study of Women Philosophers The Society for the Study of Women Philosophers was founded in December 1987 at the annual conference of the American Philosophical Association. The Society is open to men and women from all...