Shifting ground: knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness
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1. Verfasser: Scheman, Naomi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press ©2011
Schriftenreihe:Studies in feminist philosophy
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Non-negotiable demands : metaphysics, politics, and the discourse of needs -- Feminist epistemology -- On waking up one morning and discovering that we are them -- Terminal moraine -- Against physicalism -- Feeling our way toward moral objectivity -- Queering the center by centering the queer : reflections on transsexuals and secular Jews -- Forms of life : mapping the rough ground -- The trustworthiness of research : the paradigm of community-based research (co-authored with Catherine Jordan and Susan Gust) -- Narrative, complexity, and context : autonomy as an epistemic value -- Epistemology resuscitated : objectivity as trustworthiness
This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of epistemology. For some theorists, epistemology is an essentially foundationalist and hence discredited enterprise; for others-particularly analytic epistemologists--it remains rigorously segregated from political concerns. Scheman makes a compelling case for the necessity of thinking epistemologically in fundamentally altered ways. Argu
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