Original scientific paper

Criticism, context and community: Connections between Wittgenstein’s On and feminist epistemology

Carol Caraway

Abstract

In this article the conceptual connections between Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and the work of three contemporary feminist epistemologists: standpoint theorist Sandra Harding and feminist empiricists Helen Longino and Lynn Hankinson Nelson, are explored. The inquiry reveals both surprising similarities and important differences between Wittgensteinian and feminist epistemologies. Exploring these similarities and differences (criticism, context and community) clarifies Wittgenstein’s epistemology and reveals the ways in which feminist epistemologists developed the themes from On Certainty.

Keywords

Wittgenstein; feminist epistemologies; traditional objectvity; background beliefs; intersubjective criticism; social epistemology

Hrčak ID:

291

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/291

Publication date:

9.12.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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