{"product_id":"9789027715388","title":"Synthese Library: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSynthese Library: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eHarding, Sandra; Hintikka, Merrill B.P.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre Western epistemology, metaphysics, methodology and the  philosophy of science grounded only in \u003cem\u003emen's\u003c\/em\u003e distinctive  understandings of themselves, others, and nature? Does this less than  \u003cem\u003ehuman\u003c\/em\u003e understanding distort our models of reason and of  scientific inquiry? In different ways, the papers in this collection  explore the evidence for these increasingly reasonable and intriguing  questions. They identify how it is distinctively masculine  perspectives on masculine experience which have shaped the most  fundamental and formal aspects of systematic thought in philosophy and  the natural and social sciences - precisely the aspects of  thought believed most gender-neutral. They show how these  understandings ground Aristotle's biology and metaphysics; the very  definition of \u003cem\u003ethe\u003c\/em\u003e problems of philosophy in Plato, Descartes,  Hobbes and Rousseau; the `adversary method' which is the paradigm of  philosophic and scientific reasoning; principles of individuation in  philosophical ontology and the philosophy of language; individualistic  assumptions in psychology; functionalism in sociological and  biological theory; evolutionary theory; the methodology of political  science; Marxist political economy; and conceptions of `objective  inquiry' in the social and natural sciences. These essays also begin  to identify for us the distictive aspects of women's experience which  can provide the resources needed for the creation of a truly human  understanding. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eAudience:\u003c\/em\u003e The book will be of interest to those involved in  epistemology, and philosophy of the natural and social sciences, as  well as feminist scholars in philosophy. The work will also be of  value for theorists, methodologists, and feminist scholars in the  natural and social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1983-02-28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789027715388\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/0-306-48017-4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 229cm x152cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 332\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45416689336460,"sku":"9789027715388","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789027715388.jpg?v=1775704110","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789027715388","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}