Illusions of Paradox - A Feminist Epistemology Naturalized

Modern epistemology has run into several paradoxes in its efforts to explain how knowledge acquisition can be both socially based (and thus apparently context-relative) and still able to determine objective facts about the world. In this important book, Richmond Campbell attempts to dispel some of these paradoxes, to show how they are ultimately just "illusions of paradox," by developing ideas central to two of the most promising currents in epistemology: feminist epistemology and naturalized epistemology. Campbell's aim is to construct a coherent theory of knowing that is feminist and "naturalized." Illusions of Paradox will be valuable for students and scholars of epistemology and women's studies.

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By Richmond Campbell

Summary

Modern epistemology has run into several paradoxes in its efforts to explain how knowledge acquisition can be both socially based (and thus apparently context-relative) and still able to determine objective facts about the world. In this book, Richmond Campbell attempts to dispel some of these paradoxes.

Product details

• Authors: Richmond Campbell, Campbell Richmond
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.1998
• EAN: 9780847689187
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8918-7
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 531 g
• Series: Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory; Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory S.; Studies in Epistemology and Co; Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory; Studies in Epistemology and Co
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge