PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Human Genome Project, Feminist Theory, The Dilemma
17 Mar 2014
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Phil 242 - situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of. Section 1: two tempting ways for feminists to think about objective knowledge neither of which is quite satisfactory. Section 2: a way out of the dilemma: using visual metaphors to represent both bad and good ways of conceiving of knowledge. Section 3: how to the understand the real world" studied by the sciences. What scientists say and do is contingent rather than necessary: it is based on historical and political facts that could have been otherwise. More specifically: what scientists say and do isn"t primarily guided by truth and a search for knowledge but by the interests of the powerful (and, relatedly, money): The cardinal crime: it hides its own politics and contingency a leap out of the marked body and into the conquering gaze from nowhere. It claims the power to see and not be seen, to represent while escaping representation.
