"Rethinking standpoint epistemology - what is strong objectivity?" - Really nice paper by Sandra Harding on how feminist perspectives can increase objectivity of science, & how people need 2 work across 'identity' lines 2 maximize epistemological resources https://buff.ly/2MifzPT
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Replying to @briandavidearp
Seems massively overrated as something to spend much energy on in 2018 -- and the radically rebending a previously bent stick the other direct still leaves us with a very thirsted stick. Feminists epistemologists usual specialize in their own brand of twisted, and false, science
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Replying to @FriedrichHayek
It took me about half an hour to read a paper that, as I understand, has been influential (and also widely misunderstood), and which, as I discovered, articulates some important points well. That seems like a reasonably good use of time to me, whatever year it may be.
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Replying to @briandavidearp
Harding referred to Newton's *Principia Mathematica* as a "rape manual" in her book *The Science Question in Feminism*, that adds a massive new circus mirror distortion to our world, it doesn't help us successfully negotiate the world.
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Replying to @FriedrichHayek
I didn’t say anything about something she may have said about Newton (and which Wikipedia informs me she said she regretted saying). I said that the paper I read I found helpful and well argued. That paper didn’t mention Newton or rape manuals. So I don’t see the connection
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Replying to @briandavidearp
I made a simple point which is true -- feminist philosophers of science distort science as least as much as they sensitize us to distortions from the past. Often they radically distort the significance of the job done by the metaphorical extension of language in eg biology.
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Perhaps. But the article I referred2 made a cogent argument for how feminist perspectives can increase objectivity of science. There is presumably some proportion of feminist philosophers of science who don't consistently employ those methods well. Doesn't undermine what I wrote.
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