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Cato, Dennis

doi:10.1111/j.1741-5446.2007.00279.x

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“…There, the author Dennis Cato charges Maureen Ford's article on feminist epistemologies of situated knowledge [14] in the afore-mentioned issue edited by Thayer-Bacon and Turner as having "nothing to contribute to either philosophy or philosophy of education" and as trying "to hijack epistemology in the interests of her feminist agenda" [15] (p. 249). The author's anxiety of feminist terrorist attacks on epistemology shapes the short text throughout so strongly that it is somewhat of a challenge to extract specific and clear points of criticism from it.…”

Section: What Do Feminists Want In Epistemology and Why Does This Pose A Problem?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, it appears that the more cogent parts of his worry seem to center on two rather common charges which are raised against feminist standpoint epistemology. Firstly, the author worries about reductionist tendencies, claiming that standpoint epistemology attempts to "reduce epistemology to politics and power" [15] (p. 249). Secondly, he claims that feminist standpoint epistemology "must embrace an anything-goes relativism" [15] (p. 249) which, naturally, alarms and evokes the usual philosophical reservations against strongly relativist positions, appearing to require the abandonment of our claims to truth, rationality and objectivity.…”

Section: What Do Feminists Want In Epistemology and Why Does This Pose A Problem?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Knowledge for a Common World? On the Place of Feminist Epistemology in Philosophy of Education

Schumann

2016

Education Sciences

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The paper discusses the place of feminist epistemology in philosophy of education. Against frequently raised criticisms, the paper argues that the issues raised by feminist standpoint theory lead neither to a reduction of questions of knowledge to questions of power or politics nor to the endorsement of relativism. Within the on-going discussion in feminist epistemology, we can find lines of argument which provide the grounds for a far more radical critique of the traditional, narrow notion of objectivity, revealing it as inherently flawed and inconsistent and allowing for the defense of a re-worked, broader, more accurate understanding of objectivity. This is also in the interest of developing a strong basis for a feminist critique of problematically biased and repressive epistemological practices which can further be extended to shed light on the way in which knowledge has become distorted through the repression of other non-dominant epistemic standpoints. Thus, requiring a thorough re-thinking of our conceptions of objectivity and rationality, feminist epistemologies need to be carefully considered in order to improve our understanding of what knowledge for a common world implies in the pluralistic and diverse societies of post-traditional modernity in the 21st century.

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Section: What Do Feminists Want In Epistemology and Why Does This Pose A Problem?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Do Feminists Want In Epistemology and Why Does This Pose A Problem?mentioning

confidence: 99%