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Sharyn Clough,
Siblings Under the Skin: Feminism, Social Justice
and Analytic Philosophy
Critical Studies in the Humanities
Western feminists and other philosophers concerned with social
justice have begun to move beyond research programs that are defined
over and against our analytic inheritance. Building from a
necessarily critical foundation, they have begun to construct
positive theories that make clear our debts to the analytic
tradition…the methodological issues of analytic philosophy that have
proven the most fruitful for feminist appropriation concern
epistemology and the philosophy of science. Analytic philosophy of
language and mind are also becoming increasingly attractive for
feminist investigators and other philosophers concerned with
challenging the political status quo…Analytic philosophers such as
Neurath, Carnap, Hempel, Popper, Sellars, Quine, and Davidson ranged
easily over many of these topic areas, as do the feminist and other
progressive thinkers who have used the analytic tradition as a
springboard for further work.
It is in this shared spirit of social change and methodological
focus that the current volume brings together the writings of
contemporary western feminist philosophers, and other progressive
writers, alongside the classic texts of the analytic tradition that
gave them inspiration.
Siblings Under the Skin represents a daring look ahead to a
time when the affinity between social justice and analytic
philosophy is assumed and used as a point of departure for
innovative work. The collection begins with an historical essay
detailing the relationship between the philosophy and socialism of
Reichenbach and Neurath, two of the main members of the Vienna
Circle from which much of analytic philosophy takes its cue. Essays
by feminist philosophers of science, such as Lynn Hankinson Nelson,
Hugh Lacey and other progressive writers, are paired with the essays
in the analytic tradition that gave them inspiration, including
selections from Quine, Davidson, Hempel, Sellars and Popper.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Sharyn Clough, Siblings under the skin.
Historical Context
Steve Gimbel, Politics and the Wissenschaftliche Weltanschauung:
Neurath and Reichenbach on science and socialism.
Conversations
Lynn Hankinson Nelson, A question of evidence; W.V. Quine,
Epistemology naturalized.
Sharyn Clough, A hasty retreat from evidence: The recalcitrance
of relativism in feminist epistemology; Donald Davidson, A
coherence theory of truth.
Bjørn Ramberg, Charity and ideology: The field linguist as social
critic; Donald Davidson, A nice derangement of epitaphs.
Edrie Sobstyl, Lost in logical space? Wilfrid Sellars and
feminist empiricism; Wilfrid Sellars, More on givenness and
explanatory coherence.
Hugh Lacey, Where values interact with science; Karl Popper,
On the sources of knowledge and of ignorance.
Heather Douglas, Hempelian insights for feminism; Carl
Hempel, Science and human values.
Author
Sharyn
Clough received her PhD in an interdisciplinary program combining
the history and philosophy of science and feminist theory at Simon
Fraser University. She currently teaches in the Department of
Philosophy at Oregon State University. She has published essays in
journals such as Hypatia, Social Epistemology, and
Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and
Biomedical Sciences. In addition to Siblings Under the Skin
she is the author of Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist
Prescription for Feminist Science Studies (Rowman and
Littlefield).
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