PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Sandra Harding, Poseur
17 Mar 2014
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Phil 242 - toward a phenomenology of feminist consciousness . Ontology studies what things exist (and basic concepts about them) Notice that appearance presupposes a perspective: an object"s mass may be completely independent of any observer But when we describe how an object appears, we must describe how it appears to some particular observer. It"s one thing to accept (believe) a set of facts that you could read in a book And another to take on a new perspective, which involves: acting in certain ways perceiving the world in certain ways evaluating. (compare to difference between learning an instrument and reading a book about it) Becoming a feminist is partly an internal change Women workers who are not feminists know that they receive unequal pay for equal work, but they may think the arrangement is just; the feminist sees the situation as an instance of exploitation. Recognizing contradictions: technological/sociological facts conflict with old fashioned social roles.
