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Sources

I made a list of sources I thought were relevant to this article by topic. It was super inspired by Alison Jaggar's Just Methods.

Feminist epistemology is a viewpoint from feminists concerning gendered critiques around 'a prior knowledge' and knowledge creation, especially how the creator and subject relate. See Intersectionality, Standpoint, and Donna Harraway's Situated_Knowledges. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frederika Eilers (talk • contribs) 22:12, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Naturalism

Mary Belensky et al. Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. (1986)

Importance of Experience

Patricia Hill Collin's “Black Feminist Epistemology” (2000) gives us tools for knowledge production: lived experience, dialogue, ethics of caring, and accountability. Joan Scott's “Experience” (1992) is about the relation between history and experience. Scott writes that the authority of experience comes from contextualization of knowledge, as opposed to an empirical, foundationalist point of view. The thoughts of historians can be seen as naturalized; the context and categorical nature of demographics is seen as something endemic or innate and not to be questioned.

Standpoint theory

Sandra Harding's “Boarderline Epistemologies,” (1998) which accounts for people who sit on the boarder between knowledges. Patricia Hill Collin's “Learning from the Outsider within” (1986) is more closely related to Marxism of the working class viewpoints actually being a privileged point in knowledge creation that these people are not on boarders but within and outside the privileged point of view simultaneously. She flipps the priveleged point of view from the white male to the black woman and claims these overlapping oppressions aid in seeing a more truthful reality. She prefers these overlapping oppressed viewpoints, whereas Haraway says each are equally valid, but all are partial. Maria Lugones’ “Playfulness, World-Traveling, and Loving Perception” She explains that in our everyday lives we move between incomplete worlds.

Postmodern

Dona Haraway's “Situated Knowledges” (1988) Chandra Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes” a critique of transnational feminism, rejecting the binary condition we apply to west vs east.

Objectivity

Alison Jaggar’s “Love and Knowledge” (1989) point of view, emotion is critical in our understanding of objectivity, because our feelings and emotions constitute how we interpret our observations. Helen Logino “Values and Objectivity” (1990) describes the “rules” of scientific discourse as democracy making actions. These rules were originally instigated as ways to help objectify scientific inquiry. Encourages us the learn the rules so that we can play the game in questioning these rules. Naomi Scheman's “Epistemology Resuscitated” (2001) defends feministic accounts as ways to preserve and augment scientific objectivity, by questioning how authority is manifested.

Positionality

Linda Alcoff's “The Problem with Speaking for Others” (1992) Feminists tend to view “speaking for others [as] arrogant, vain, unethical, and politically illegitimate” (6) and Alcoff urges us to instead seek dialog between knower and subject. To Alcoff, “a speaker’s location … has an epistemically significant impact on that speaker’s claims and can serve either to authorize or disauthorize one’s speech” (7). Patricia Maguire's Doing Participatory Research (1987) Is about Participatory Action Research (PAR), which seeks to enable and empower the research subjects and to seek political change.

Frederika Eilers (talk) 21:31, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

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Strange grammer

I cannot figure out the meaning of the first sentence in one of the paragraphs.

"Feminist epistemology emphasize how important ethical and political are the values in shaping epistemic practices and interpretations of evidence."

Is this verbatim or just a somewht clumsy paraphrase? I was was unable to decipher the intended meaning.

Idyllic press (talk) 07:23, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

I believe it ought to read: "Feminist epistemology emphasizes how important ethical and political values are in shaping epistemic practices, and interpretations of evidence." 159.92.238.13 (talk) 14:29, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

New Information

I added a few sentences from a paper about Harding's inspirations for standpoint theory. The article currently makes no discussion about Quine's underdetermination theory or Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions despite Harding referencing them in her work. This is a good area to expand more on later.

Bbydhyonchord-Switch7 (talk) 19:44, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Errors and weaknesses in Feminist Epistemology

Entry: Feminist epistemology

As of 4 October 2018 I found the following errors and weaknesses. I note on 5 October that those before the subsection Paradoxes have been corrected.

Scientists of feminist epistemology claim that knowledge discriminate [1] women by: preventing [2] them from inquiry // [1] Agreement Incomplete verb [2] Misuse of colon

The main interest of feminist philosophers is how gender stereotypes situate knowing subjects// Word omitted ["in," after "is"]

The paradoxes of bias The first one is many feminist empiricist advocates on exposing the androcentric and sexist biases in scientific research, which people have a bias towards gender difference and sexuality.// Garble

they adopted certain bias about gender and science // Singular-plural confusion

The paradox of social construction The second paradox is about many science criticisms expose that the scientific inquiry is influenced by both social and political factors.The theories of androcentric and sexist are influenced by the most society are what they advocate, which can be understood as in order to eliminate the bias, the term like “ individualist epistemology” would be used. // Garble

However, they want scientific [1] to be open to different social influences, which the bias of female is also a part of social influence. [2] // [1] Adjective for noun [2] Garble

Criticism of empiricism theory: It is the most criticized theory by others, [1] for its assumptions that transhistorical [2] subject of knowledge exists outside of social determination (Harding 1990 [2] Also [3] feminist empiricism theory states that science will correct all the biases and errors in theories about women and other groups by itself. // [1] Awkward diction [2] Omitted article [3] Paragraph structure and emphasis lost

At a basic level, standpoint epistemology asserts that marginalized groups such as women are bestowed with [1] an “epistemic privilege", [2] // [1] Not English [2] Misplaced comma

Every standpoint theory must specify: the social location from the feminist perspective, the // Misused colon

Feminist standpoint theory is one of the types of critical theory, [1] their [2] main intention is to improve their situation. // [1] Comma fault [2] Reference

Feminism and feminist epistemology is [1] all about [2] inquiry, assumptions, and theories. // [1] Agreement [2] Inappropriate diction

It presents an elaborate map or method for maximizing “strong objectivity” in natural and social science, yet does not necessarily focus on encouraging positivistic scientific practices, like is central to Feminist Empiricism // Like-as fault

Bar On (1993) said that if feminine [1] ethics of care provides privileged [2] perspective on morality, then our moral knowledge is convinced [3] only by existence [4 ] of gender relations. Bar On also claims that theory which explains structural relationship [5] between advanced and less developed, which [6] dictates epistemic privilege [7] can not be applied [8] to women. Marx claimed that class conflict derives [9] other conflicts such as racism, sexism, national and religious conflicts. [10] // [1] Wrong word [2] Missing article [3] Wrong word [4] Missing article [5] Missing article [6] Missing noun [7] Missing "that" [8] Concept-word disorder [9] Concept-word disorder [10] Examples that don't exemplify

Feminist epistemology is criticized by different philosophers.// Wrong word ["different" for "various"]

Post-modern thought marks a feminist group shift away from dominant, positivistic ideals of objectivity and universal understanding. Instead, it acknowledges a diversity of unique human perspectives, none of which can claim absolute knowledge authority. Post-Modern feminism has thus [1] been critiqued for having a relativist-stance, where ongoing power relations between key identities have been often neglected attention [2] // [1] Unfounded claim ["thus"] to a logical conclusion [2] Not English

Criticism of postmodernism: Key features of postmodernism: “Women” not the category of analysis and contains of perspectives which are controversial with feminist theory. The fact that women are in different social position can experience sexism differently, does not mean that they do not suffer from it. // Garble

This theory focuses on how power and gender relations behave in terms of value theory and epistemology. Bordo’s (1990) and Lloyd’s (1984) [1] examined how “maleness” and “femaleness” are used in philosophical theories and discussions about relationship [2] such as, reason/unreason, reason/emotion and objectivity/subjectivity. Lorraine Code’s [3] (1987, 1991, 1995, 1996) with other feminist co-workers determined in which ways political and social routine shapes our identities. // [1] Missing noun [2] Agreement [3] Comma misuse

Code’s works also have been influential in epistemological fields, which can be described as version of naturalism takes and reinvents simple and uncontroversial empirical beliefs, [1] for example the belief like [2] “I know that I am seeing a bird”, [3] deforms the epistemic animal nature. Feminist epistemic virtue theorists rejects [4] almost all the assumptions. [4] Skeptical problems can not get any connections with it, [5] so it is ignored and considered as a pseudo-problem. // [1] Garble [2] Linguistic disorder [3] Misplaced and misused comma [4] Agreement [5] Linguistic and conceptual disorder

Feminist science criticism mainly has [1] five different kinds of research about gender and science to address five identified biases. These are studies of how: Exclusion [2] or marginalization of women scientists impair [3] scientific progress. [1] Juvenile diction [2] Misuse of colon [3] Imprecise diction [precise: "impede"]

Feminist science argues that the inquiry of science which informed by feminist epistemology is based on legalizing and produce the limiting partial bias. Garble 2601:282:8300:5323:71C8:9503:D71C:EBF (talk) 19:38, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Proposed Contributions to the Article

I am proposing to add information about two important aspects of feminist epistemology (specifically, standpoint epistemology) to the article. Within the standpoint theory section, I would like to add a section expanding on the sources of inspiration for Harding's theory (I already added a few sentences on it as there was no information before). Specifically, a brief description of the arguments presented by Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and information on how Harding used them, which is found in her books as well as in quotes in criticisms of her work. I would also like to add more to the currently very lacking "Criticism of Standpoint Theory" section. Specifically, a description of the arguments presented by Pinnick in "Feminist Epistemology: Implications for Philosophy of Science" and possibly from other sources. This goes with the information about Kuhn because many criticisms of standpoints focus on Harding's alleged misuse of Kuhn and Quine. If you can, please look at my proposed sources and give feedback. Bbydhyonchord-Switch7 (talk) 18:44, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Sources:

Feminist Epistemology: Implications for Philosophy of Science

After the Neutrality Ideal: Science, Politics, and "Strong Objectivity"

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Also see the annotations in my sandbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.249.140.121 (talk) 13:37, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Bbydhyonchord-Switch7 (talk) 22:51, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Susan Haack

I would like to add this information about Susa Haack: The philosopher Susan Haack is a notable critic of feminist epistemology. Haack, a self-described "old-fashioned" feminist, believes feminist epistemology has drifted from its original purpose. Haack argues the goal of feminist epistemology has shifted from pushing for equality of thought to an aggressive campaign to highlight women's viewpoints.[2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by RFagan99 (talk • contribs) 21:44, 7 May 2020 (UTC)