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Arter Eurocentrism: Challenges for the Philosophy of Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding*
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University of California—Los Angeles
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Criticisms of the effects of Western sciences and their technologies on Third World societies are not new to Westemers. For decades both Third World and Western authors have analyzed and protested the frequent ill effects in the Third World of Western asswnptions, concepts, paradigms and practices in health care, ecology, militarism, socalled economic “development” and its associated technology transfers.

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Part X. New Directions in the Philosophy of Science: Issues of Gender and Race
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1992 , Issue 2: Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers 1992 , 1993 , pp. 310 - 319
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Copyright © 1993 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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