| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Ward, Laura Aline
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| Author's Email Address |
laury@vt.edu |
| URN |
etd-12132004-152536 |
| Title |
Objectivity in Feminist Philosophy of Science |
| Degree |
Master of Arts |
| Department |
Philosophy |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Valerie Hardcastle |
Committee Chair |
| Laura Perini |
Committee Member |
| Richard Burian |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- philosophy of science
- gender
- Helen Longino
- hormone replacement therapy
- breast cancer
- Sandra Harding
- Susan Haack
- Lynn Hankinson Nelson
- Donna Haraway
- feminist
- objectivity
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| Date of Defense |
2004-06-22 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
Feminist philosophy of science has long been considered a fringe element of philosophy of science as a whole. A careful consideration of the treatment of the key concept of objectivity by such philosophical heavyweights as Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper, followed by an analysis of the concept of objectivity with the work of such feminist philosophers of science as Donna Haraway, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, and Sandra Harding, reveals that feminist philosophers of science are not members of some fringe movement of philosophy of science, but rather are doing philosophical work which is both crucial and connected to the work of other, “mainstream” philosophers of science.
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