"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 pointed out the fact that feminist perspectives often _decreases_ the objectivity of science, taking a slightly bent stick & radically bending & twisting it. You said, "Sandra Harding on how feminist perspectives can increase objectivity of science,"
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Replying to @FriedrichHayek
Right, saying that something, if well done, can accomplish A, is not refuted by the observation that, if done poorly, it can impede the accomplishment of A.
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Replying to @briandavidearp
I pointed out that the literature you recommend is dominated by B, and the showed you a notorious example of the kind of thing that is common through the literature. You didn't want to hear it. Fine. Hide your eyes.
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I have no resistance to hearing that feminist perspectives have on balance been used poorly to confound rather than improve science; I didn’t advance any claim to the contrary. You seem stuck on the idea that I was giving some kind of general endorsement. I wasn’t.
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