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Woman — Nature, Product, Style? Rethinking the Foundations of Feminist Philosophy of Science

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Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science

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Phenomenology questions the foundations of knowledge and science in a specific sense. It studies the meanings of the phenomena measured and generalized about in the empirical sciences: What do we mean, for example, by “natural processes”, by “nature”, “fact”, “culture”, “human being”, etc.? And it studies the meanings of concepts basic to science: knowledge, objectivity, mistake, false belief, etc. Understanding the philosophy of science broadly, we can say that phenomenology is a specific viewpoint or approach within it; it critically attends to the basic concepts at work in both the natural and human sciences.

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Heinämaa, S. (1996). Woman — Nature, Product, Style? Rethinking the Foundations of Feminist Philosophy of Science. In: Nelson, L.H., Nelson, J. (eds) Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science. Synthese Library, vol 256. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1742-2_13

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