Hypatia articles from June 1995

Hypatia archives from June 1995

Analytic feminism: a brief introduction.(Special Issue: Analytic Feminism)
June 22, 1995... The purpose of this issue of Hypatia is to highlight the work of analytic feminists, to demonstrate that feminist analytic philosophy (or analytic feminist philosophy) exists and merits consideration both by feminist philosophers working in other...

A minimally decent philosophical method? Analytic philosophy and feminism.(Special Issue: Analytic Feminism)
June 22, 1995... Philosophers often disagree deeply. Feminists often disagree deeply. It should come as no surprise that feminist philosophers also disagree deeply. For any philosophical tradition we can name, some feminist philosopher has found pernicious...

The very idea of feminist epistemology.(Special Issue: Analytic Feminism)
June 22, 1995... THE LIMITS OF ANALYSIS This essay attempts to redirect, among feminists representing a variety of philosophical traditions, a discussion of feminist epistemology and feminist philosophy of science.(1) I pursue two lines of argument. The first...

Feminist epistemology: an interpretation and a defense.(Special Issue: Analytic Feminism)
June 22, 1995... Feminist epistemology is about the ways gender influences what we take to be knowledge. Consider impersonal theoretical and scientific knowledge, the kind of knowledge privileged in the academy. Western societies have labeled this kind of...

Feminist epistemology and the extent of the social.(Special Issue: Analytic Feminism)
June 22, 1995... Feminist epistemologies are in part motivated by the recognition that everyone who knows something is a person occupying a position in one or more social groups. As Sandra Harding has so succinctly expressed it, "Knowledge claims are always...

The concept of truth in feminist sciences.(Special Issue: Analytic Feminism)
June 22, 1995... A feminist science would bring the aim of science in line with the values of feminism. The problem is that one finds a significant tension among the values that feminist epistemologists have associated with the concept of feminist science. On the...

Seeing and caring: the role of affect in feminist moral epistemology.(Special Issue: Analytic Feminism)
June 22, 1995... Moral wisdom is hard to come by. It is usually a difficult and delicate job to discern the moral landscape accurately. Well we may ask, then, what is needed to make good moral judgments? What is the proper epistemic stance to adopt in our efforts...

Feminism, objectivity, and analytic philosophy.(Special Issue: Analytic Feminism)
June 22, 1995... One sometimes hears the claim that the traditional conception of objectivity which has played a prominent part in Western science and philosophy is male-biased. This view presents a problem for those of us who consider ourselves feminists and who...

Is psychological individualism a piece of ideology?(Special Issue: Analytic Feminism)
June 22, 1995... 'Tis a dangerous thing to engage the authority of Scripture in disputes about the natural world, in opposition to reason; lest time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made Scripture to...

Value in Ethics and Economics.(Special Issue: Analytic Feminism)
June 22, 1995... In this book Elizabeth Anderson offers a new and exciting theory of value that is different from many of the dominant ethical and economic theories of value in that it combines features currently of great interest that the more traditional...