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On Sandra Harding's Philosophy Of Science

Posted on:2007-02-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120360182483857Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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After the second world war, Thomas S. Kuhn published a book the name of "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" .This brought a big discussion in the science field . In this period, feminism developed a strong academic force .Sandra Harding's theory included two aspects : one was post colonialism theory;the other was feminism standpoint theory .Sandra Harding's philosophy of science studied science history from a multi-culture point of way. She criticized kinds of colonialism, eurocentrism, internalist scientific epistemology, diffusionism .It opened a new cultural perspective with its unique way of concerning gender. From the different aspect, the Feminist criticized the main stream of science deeply, exposed sexist and androcentric bias of the main stream of science. Furthermore, it established the system of the feminist science and epistemology. She drawed the view of feminism epistemology and offered a feminism science . It also described a feminism science view.The article based on analyzing with Sandra Harding's philosophy of science theory , deeply researched ,analyzed on the whole ,and evaluated her theory's contributions and limitations. In the end, the article expected her theory's affections on the philosophy of science in the future.
Keywords/Search Tags:feminism, philosophy of science, standpoint theory, strong objectivity
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