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ISBN: | 9781441145048 1441145044 1283205912 9781283205917 9780826498670 0826498671
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-174) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Feminist philosophy identifies tensions within mainstream theories of knowledge. To create a more egalitarian epistemology, solutions to these problems have been as diverse as the traditions of philosophy out of which feminists continue to emerge. This book considers two equally formidable approaches theorized by Louise Antony and Lynn Hankinson Nelson. The American philosopher W.V.O. Quine locates knowledge as a branch of empirical science. Shuford shows how both Antony and Nelson use Quine's 'naturalized epistemology' to create empirically robust feminist epistemologies. However, Shuford arg.
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Other form: | Print version: Shuford, Alexandra L. Feminist epistemology and American pragmatism. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010 9780826498670
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