Some Key Topics in Feminist Philosophies of Science: An Introduction

Abstract

In this first chapter we will briefly introduce some key topics that, perhaps in different ways, are part and parcel of both “traditional” philosophies of science and feminist philosophies of science: the situatedness of knowledge, the notion of relationality, the idea of conceiving sciences as sets of communal practices, the underrepresentation and exclusion of women, the critique to the value-free ideal, the ethical, political, and social dimension of sciences.