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When I received the invitation to participate in the workshop that led to this book, I was struck by the question mark following the phrase “customized science”. As a student and teacher of the history of science, and an empiricist, naturalist, and feminist philosopher of science, I thought “When is science not customized?” Indeed, I asked “Is a science that is not customized even possible?”
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Nelson, L.H. (2014). Feminism and Science. In: Fuller, S., Stenmark, M., Zackariasson, U. (eds) The Customization of Science. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379610_3
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