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Evelyn Fox Keller's Feminism Philosophy Of Science

Posted on:2008-09-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Z JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120360242984901Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Feminism Philosophy of Science is history that comes from the feminist to be aware of science always with male for center of history, and the male all occupies absolutely the overwhelming superiority in quantity and the quality. "Gender and sciences" are an outstanding edge cases. Masculinity and history contact of the objectivity, particularly masculinity and the contact of science, is the topic that the academic commentary disdains to the serious speaking about. The science in its birth as if is taken as the myth which is dominated by the male. What function does it have in science? Where does it come from? How does it affect our concerning science objectivity or the idea of the gender? Taking such problem consciousness Evelyn Fox Keller carries on the judgment of feminist view to science.The science philosophy research of Evelyn Fox Keller belongs to the philosophy research realm, involving history, biology, politics, psychology and sociology etc. Evelyn Fox Keller is not only is a typical model feminism scholar, also is the scientific philosopher and the science historian.Firstly, Keller introspects to contact the gender together to science, carries on the analytical research to several course realms of living creature, psychology etc., explores the gender physiology characteristic and the outside gender qualities that it reflects actively, points out the social gender end cause gender discrimination, thus falters the people's traditional idea of deeply rooted "the gender (the physiology sex) decision everything". Secondly, compared with the traditional objectivity, "the dynamic objectivity" principle that Keller put forward, provides the new understanding category for the people. Once more, when reconsidering science, Keller attempts between the scientific realism and the relativism seeks "the middle path", and she points out the science is neither "mirror of the nature" nor "mirror of the cultural", in fact it is the reflection that the nature and the culture affects mutually.This article was based on above Keller scientific philosophic three principal aspects——science andthe gender question, the science objectivity question, has conducted the system research to the scientific realism critique and combs, carried on the detailed elaboration to its viewpoint theory and the quite comprehensive appraisal, and has appraised her scientific philosophy thought contribution and the limitation, thus attempted to give one about Evelyn Fox Keller's scientific philosophic thought approximate outline, deepens by the time to the Keller feminism philosophy of science understanding.
Keywords/Search Tags:Evelyn Fox Keller, feminist, sciences and gender, the dynamic objectivity, the scientific realism
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