Feminist philosophy of science and its related epistemology, concerns scientific inquiry and the extent to which theories and knowledge are influenced and shaped by bias within the scientific community, and the means to rectify this. There are three main distinctions of feminist philosophy of science; empiricism, standpoint theory, and postmodernism. I am to be comparing and contrasting two of the three; namely feminist standpoint theory and postmodernism. Both of these distinctions are intriguing, if somewhat extreme and conflicting views, in their own right. I shall argue that ______.
The feminist philosophy of science is rooted in studying an analysing discourse and knowledge that is harmful and not conducive to attaining an impartial interpretation …show more content…
It follows that, with completely different social constructs, according to postmodernism, there is nothing wrong for such communities to have overarching, though conflicting views about a particular theory. To see why this is the case we must consider what constitutes a correct and accepted theory within a group. If it is the case that communities have separate social constructs and contrasting opinions, there is nothing to say that nothing is wrong, or, conversely, nothing is right. What is left is an undefined, incomplete view of the world which says that anything and everything, conflicting views or not, is all the same, and whether a community ascribes to one particular construct of the world, concurrently, is relative. That is also to say, relative to a community, there is defined the concepts of True and False, and dependent on how well a scientific theory matches to such defined attributes, determines to what extent it is True and False, respectively. Thus, if Truth is itself relative, what conclusions ought there to be drawn about seemingly concrete (and less concrete) truths within science if such scientific knowledge is illusory and subjective? Science, according to postmodernism is hence …show more content…
To say that much of knowledge is socially constructed and socially situated certainly rings true. Yet, denying the existence of a ‘true’ reality is perplexing. If there were no objective reality, how can there be the experience
Both standpoint theory and postmodernism assure that, in general, science would benefit from, and requires, a somewhat neutral, and less
The feminist philosophy of science is rooted in studying an analysing discourse and knowledge that is harmful and not conducive to attaining an impartial interpretation …show more content…
It follows that, with completely different social constructs, according to postmodernism, there is nothing wrong for such communities to have overarching, though conflicting views about a particular theory. To see why this is the case we must consider what constitutes a correct and accepted theory within a group. If it is the case that communities have separate social constructs and contrasting opinions, there is nothing to say that nothing is wrong, or, conversely, nothing is right. What is left is an undefined, incomplete view of the world which says that anything and everything, conflicting views or not, is all the same, and whether a community ascribes to one particular construct of the world, concurrently, is relative. That is also to say, relative to a community, there is defined the concepts of True and False, and dependent on how well a scientific theory matches to such defined attributes, determines to what extent it is True and False, respectively. Thus, if Truth is itself relative, what conclusions ought there to be drawn about seemingly concrete (and less concrete) truths within science if such scientific knowledge is illusory and subjective? Science, according to postmodernism is hence …show more content…
To say that much of knowledge is socially constructed and socially situated certainly rings true. Yet, denying the existence of a ‘true’ reality is perplexing. If there were no objective reality, how can there be the experience
Both standpoint theory and postmodernism assure that, in general, science would benefit from, and requires, a somewhat neutral, and less