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A Critical Evaluation Of Epistemic Terms Within The Context Of Feminist Epistemology
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He sees feminism has another contemporary movement that questions some
of the underlying assumptions of the Western tradition in philosophy and
seeks to develop a new modelfor doing philosophy. And that feminism
like any living movement that is breaking new ground, have many
different and conflicting visions of what the character and agenda of
their movement should be and holds that though there is no official
creed or set of doctrines that all feminist agree upon, but that their
thinking revolves around some common themes, such that feminism is seen
as a movement within philosophy and other discipline that; (1)
emphasizes the role of gender in shaping how we think and how society is
structured (2) focuses on the historical and social forces that have
excluded women from full participation in the intellectual and political
realms, and (3) strive to produce a society that recognizes women and
men as both different and equal8. These three themes illustrate that
feminism includes both theoretical understanding of the way things are
and an attempt to use their knowledge to transform the status quo.
Next book reviewed is titled Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology, (ed)
by C.L. Pinnick, N. Koertge and R.F, Almeder, published by Rutger
University Press, New Brunswick in 2003. This book offers a systematic
critique against feminist epistemologists; its aim is to show that the
entire enterprise is a failure. The authors level for charges against
feminist epistemologists, such as (1) Political correctness- that
feminist epistemologists aims at political-correctness, which is an
attempt to legitimate the idea that “feminist values should determine
what theories are acceptedâ€9. That such politicized inquiry leads to
“sham reasoners seeking only to make a case for some foregone
conclusionsâ€10. (2) Tribalism- that feminist epistemologists think that
all women (or all feminist) do, or should think alike, and that they
ought to adopts some common “feminine epistemic style applicable to all
fields of inquiry and in serving women’s interestâ€. (3) Self-
defeating conservatism- that feminist epistemologists defeat their own
aims in taking women’s values as an uncriticized given, even when these
values underwrite sex and caste oppression11. (4) Cynicism- that
feminist epistemologists reject the quest for objectivity and truth as
an impossibility, and regard the claim to pursue it is a mask for power
play that in practice serves the interests of white heterosexual western
men at everyone else’s expenses. All these arguments they used against
feminist epistemologists in this book.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This work takes a critical look at the term “Feminist epistemology†as well as their evaluation of the “epistemic terms†Feminist who are trying arguing that the quest for knowledge, which epistemology is centred on, should not be male oriented only, but that the female gender should be given an ear-say in the discus of knowledge. The task of this project is to elucidate on the terms used in epistemology within the view-point of the feminist as ... Continue reading---
