I’ve never got why Foucault is considered so controversial. His schtick is “institutions you might have thought benign came about for disreputable reasons”, examples being prisons, psychiatric hospitals, liberal sexual norms.
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This thread has me thinking about this issue more, sorry for spamming you! I take Longino to have four main points: (1) empiricism, the proper evaluative metric in science is whether we are doing well in predicting the outcome of experiments and interventions...
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(2) Under-determination, we need to make choices of theories and hypotheses on grounds that can't be fully captured by cognitive virtues (for critical review, http://thehangedman.com/teaching-files/svd/Intemann_2005.pdf …)...
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(3) Diversity, we'd do best by empiricist lights if we allowed for a diversity of sets of non-cognitive values guide judgements, and (4) Feminism, among the non-cognitive values that can form part of a fruitful community of inquiry are characteristically feminist values.
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