PHIL 2500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Feminist Epistemology, Moral Development, White Privilege
22 Apr 2013
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Value neutrality: reliance on science and positivism- to get to the truth of something- western context but also other culture. Every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified. Trying to get us to believe that"s true. 1. value-neutrality- we look at facts as disconnected or dissociated from value system- no objective, no ideology. 2. objectivity- remove subjective bias from inquiry and claims about truth. Need the same results anywhere- ideological leaning is removed. Male paradigns vs. female qualities, divide between maleness and femaleness. Calls attention to the subject, how we individually experience the world. Feminist episomologists have a problem with the view from nowhere) Each subjects are emdodied, located and particular emotions are a social construct. Feminist epistemologists contest: thinking knowledge is universal, objectivity, emotion-western tradition wrongly conceptualizes knowledge focuses on rationality. Dispassionate investigator- -the myth of the dispassionate investigator- similar to disembodied knowledge. Those who have power- that a dispassionate investigator- they have a lack of awareness of emotions.
