Feminist philosophy of science: history, contributions, and challenges

Richardson, Sarah S.

doi:10.1007/s11229-010-9791-6

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“…However, a lack or a swift dismissal of, for instance, very left-leaning, moderate, or right-leaning minority beliefs in philosophy would not only weaken the reliability of philosophical belief formation. It could also lead scholars to overlook meaningful research questions (Jussim et al, 2018;Richardson, 2010), and it might, given the reduced social checking of reasoning, cause scholars inside and outside philosophy as well as the public to distrust philosophical research (Rolin, 2002, p. 100;Kornblith, 1999, p. 190).…”

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Ideological diversity, hostility, and discrimination in philosophy

Peters

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Philosophical Psychology

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Members of the field of philosophy have, just as other people, political convictions or, as psychologists call them, ideologies. How are different ideologies distributed and perceived in the field? Using the familiar distinction between the political left and right, we surveyed an international sample of 794 subjects in philosophy. We found that survey participants clearly leaned left (75%), while right-leaning individuals (14%) and moderates (11%) were underrepresented. Moreover, and strikingly, across the political spectrum from very left-leaning individuals and moderates to very rightleaning individuals, participants reported experiencing ideological hostility in the field, occasionally even from those on their own side of the political spectrum. Finally, while about half of the subjects believed that discrimination against leftor right-leaning individuals in the field is not justified, a significant minority displayed an explicit willingness to discriminate against colleagues with the opposite ideology. Our findings are both surprising and important because a commitment to tolerance and equality is widespread in philosophy, and there is reason to think that ideological similarity, hostility, and discrimination undermine reliable belief formation in many areas of the discipline.

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Section: Epistemic Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ideological diversity, hostility, and discrimination in philosophy

Peters

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Philosophical Psychology

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“…adopt it as a criterion of good science (Longino 1990(Longino , 1995Root 1993;Lacey 1999;Kitcher 2001Kitcher , 2011Solomon 2001;Douglas 2009;Kourany 2010). Arguments against the ideal are advanced in tandem with case studies where moral and social values are claimed to play a legitimate role in acceptance (see Anderson 1995Anderson , 2004Douglas 2000;Intemann 2001;Richardson 2010;Crasnow 2014;Elliott and McKaughan 2014). While I do not object to all such arguments, I wish to challenge the assumption that all moral and social values are non-epistemic values and that, consequently, all cases where moral and social values legitimately enter into a decision to accept something count as arguments against the value-free ideal.…”

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Values in Science: The Case of Scientific Collaboration

Rolin¹

2015

Philos. of Sci.

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Much of the literature on values in science is limited in its perspective because it focuses on the role of values in individual scientists’ decision making, thereby ignoring the context of scientific collaboration. I examine the epistemic structure of scientific collaboration and argue that it gives rise to two arguments showing that moral and social values can legitimately play a role in scientists’ decision to accept something as scientific knowledge. In the case of scientific collaboration some moral and social values are properly understood to be extrinsic epistemic values, that is, values that promote the attainment of scientific knowledge.

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“…Although early feminist science studies literature spanned research on gender diversity in the sciences and critiques of scientific knowledge production, by the 1990s these areas of research had become more disparate than connected (Longino and Hammonds ; Hammonds and Subramaniam ; Subramaniam ; Richardson ). Those interested in increasing the number of women in the sciences found some success in liberal diversity initiatives as feminist science studies as a field centered more on philosophical questions of knowledge production.…”

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“…Much feminist science studies work starts from the idea that science is historically and culturally contingent (Haraway 1988;Longino 1990;Schiebinger 1993;Spanier 1995;Harding 2001;Subramaniam 2009;Richardson 2010). Accordingly, if we posit that feminism has changed our broader culture, it must also have impacted science.…”

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Scientific Reforms, Feminist Interventions, and the Politics of Knowing: An Auto‐ethnography of a Feminist Neuroscientist

Giordano¹

2014

Hypatia

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Feminist science studies scholars have documented the historical and cultural contingency of scientific knowledge production. It follows that political and social activism has impacted the practice of science today; however, little has been done to examine the current cultures of science in light of feminist critiques and activism. In this article, I argue that, although critiques have changed the cultures of science both directly and indirectly, fundamental epistemological questions have largely been ignored and neutralized through these policy reforms. I provide an auto‐ethnography of my doctoral work in a neuroscience program to a) demonstrate how the culture of science has incorporated critiques into its practices and b) identify how we might use these changes in scientific practices to advance feminist science agendas. I critically analyze three areas in current scientific practice in which I see obstacles and opportunities: 1) research ethics, 2) diversity of research subjects and scientists, and 3) identification of a project's significance for funding. I argue that an understanding of the complicated and changing cultures of science is necessary for future feminist interventions into the sciences that directly challenge science's claim to epistemic authority.

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Feminist philosophy of science: history, contributions, and challenges

Cited by 44 publications

References 58 publications

Ideological diversity, hostility, and discrimination in philosophy

Ideological diversity, hostility, and discrimination in philosophy

Values in Science: The Case of Scientific Collaboration

Scientific Reforms, Feminist Interventions, and the Politics of Knowing: An Auto‐ethnography of a Feminist Neuroscientist

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