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The Concept of Truth in Feminist Sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Geoffrey Gorham
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Abstract

If we view the aim of feminist science as truthlikeness, instead of either absolute or relative truth, then we can explain the sense in which the feminist sciences bring an objective advance in knowledge without implicating One True Theory. I argue that a certain non-linguistic theory of truthlikeness is especially well-suited to this purpose and complements the feminist epistemologies of Harding, Haraway, and Longino.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Analytic Feminism , Summer 1995 , pp. 99 - 116
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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