Makes the argument that the philosophy and practices of Western science, contrary to its enlightenment mission, work to insure that more science will only worsen the gaps between the best and worst off around the world.
Makes the argument that the philosophy and practices of Western science, contrary to its enlightenment mission, work to insure that more science will ...
"In this collection, Sandra Harding offers a broad spectrum of feminist research... an incisive introduction... With this collection, Harding offers an outline of possibilities to students and practicing social scientists whose questions lie outside the dominant traditions of inquiry... " Harvard Educational Review
"The quality of the essays, plus that of the introduction and collection, commend this book to both the reader who would explore these issues and she/he who would know more." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
In this collection, Sandra Harding interrogates some...
"In this collection, Sandra Harding offers a broad spectrum of feminist research... an incisive introduction... With this collection, Harding offer...
Is Science Multicultural? explores what the last three decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. Sandra Harding introduces and discusses an array of postcolonial science studies, and their implications for "northern" science. All three science studies strains have developed in the context of post-World War II science and technology projects. They illustrate how technoscientific projects mean different things to different groups. The meaning attached by the culture of the West may not be shared or may be diametrically...
Is Science Multicultural? explores what the last three decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can ...
The essays in this volume bring to their focuses on philosophical issues the new angles of vision created by the multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminisms that have been developing around us. These multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminist concerns transform mainstream notions of experience, human rights, the origins of philosophic issues, philosophic uses of metaphors of the family, white antiracism, human progress, scientific progress, modernity, the unity of scientific method, the desirability of universal knowledge claims, and other ideas central to philosophy.
The essays in this volume bring to their focuses on philosophical issues the new angles of vision created by the multicultural, global, and postcol...
This volume brings together a collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diverse issues for the philosophy of science and technology. These essays extend philosophical discussion of science and technology beyond the standard feminist and gender analyses that have flourished since 1980, by bringing a thorough and truly diverse set of cultural, racial and ethical concerns to bear on questioning in these areas. Science and Other Cultures charts important new directions in ongoing discussions of science and technology and makes a contribution to both...
This volume brings together a collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diverse issues for the philosophy ...
With a book that is guaranteed to upset familiar assumptions about or ways of knowing, Sandra Harding again steps into the center of a thorn debate--a debate about the nature of the scientific enterprise and of human knowledge itself. Vigorously and persuasively, she develops further the themes first addressed in The Science Question in Feminism. It that widely influential book, she asked what it is that is distinctive about feminist research. Here she conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we know.
With a book that is guaranteed to upset familiar assumptions about or ways of knowing, Sandra Harding again steps into the center of a thorn debate--a...
"The classic and recent essays gathered here will challenge scholars in the natural sciences, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and women's studies to examine the role of racism in the construction and application of the sciences. Harding... has also created a useful text for diverse classroom settings." --Library Journal
"A rich lode of readily accessible thought on the nature and practice of science in society. Highly recommended." --Choice
"This is an excellent collection of essays that should prove useful in a wide range of STS courses." --Science, Technology, and...
"The classic and recent essays gathered here will challenge scholars in the natural sciences, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and women's stud...
