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
Publication date:
9.12.2002.
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