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Illusions of Paradox A Feminist Epistemology Naturalized

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ISBN-10: 0847689182

ISBN-13: 9780847689187

Edition: 1998

Authors: Richmond Campbell

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Modern epistemology has run into several paradoxes in its efforts to explain how knowledge acquistion can be both socially based and still able to determine objective facts about the world. Here Campbell attempts to dispel some of these paradoxes.
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Book details

List price: $153.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/7/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.16" wide x 9.26" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Promise or Paradox?
The Paradoxes
Three Commitments
Notes
Feminism and Empirical Knowledge
Understanding Feminist Empiricism
Internal Feminist Empiricism
Is This a Coherent Empiricism?
Can It Be Objective?
Does It Have Sufficient Scope?
Why Empiricism?
Notes
The Realism Question
Systemic Bias and Explanatory Power
Truth Versus Models
Diversity, Maps, and Individuality
More Arguments from Norms
Quine's Argument
The Bias Paradox
Notes
Knowledge as Social and Reflexive
A Case for Social Epistemology
Longino on Dialogue and Objectivity
Emotional Knowledge
Reflexivity and Empiricism
Standpoint Theory Compared
Notes
Feminism and Naturalized Epistemology
Normative Naturalized Epistemology
Quine on Induction
Normativity Forsaken?
The Circularity Problem
Native Inferential Tendencies
Truth Versus Fitness
Notes
Self-Knowledge and Feminist Naturalism
The Genetic Fallacy Fallacy
Hardwig and Baier on Trust
MacKinnon on Self-Knowledge and Sexual Pleasure
Dillon on Basal Self-Respect
Sherwin on Autonomy
Feminism and Scientism
Notes
Feminism, Meaning, and Value
Fact-Value Holism
Can Ends Be Objective?
The Fact-Value Dichotomy
Fact and Value as Interdependent
Models and Norms in Okin's Theory
Can Norms Explain the World?
What Are Epistemic Norms?
Notes
Meaning-Value Holism
Analyticity and the A Priori
Kitcher on A Priori Knowledge
Adding Fact-Meaning Holism
Is Feminist Metaethics Possible?
Feminist Moral Realism?
Notes
Feminism and Moral Knowledge
Feminist Contractarianism
Feminist Motivations in Conflict
A Hybrid Theory of Moral Judgment
Realism and Contractarianism
Reconciling Justice with Care
The Need for an Archimedean Point
Embodied Knowledge
Transformational Experiences
The Baseline Problem
Morality without Foundations
Notes
Feminist Contractarianism Naturalized
Analogy with Induction
Biology in "Man's" Image?
Extending the Analogy
Coping with Circularity
Foundationalism or Coherentism?
The Communitarian Objection
Taking Consent Seriously
Notes
Conclusion
The Paradoxes Are Illusions
Is It Really Feminism? Or Philosophy?
Note
Bibliography
Index
About the Author