COURSE OUTLINE
    PHILOSOPHY 8600.
    SEMINAR: FEMINIST THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

    Ronald Giere and Naomi Scheman
    Spring 1992


    1 April: INTRODUCTIONS.

    8 April: HISTORICIZING & CONTEXTUALIZING SCIENCE: TWENTIETH
    CENTURY BIOLOGY.

    Biology and Gender Study Group, "The Importance of Feminist
       Critique for Contemporary Cell Biology," in Feminism and
       Science, ed. Nancy Tuana, pp. 172-87.
    Helen Longino, "Explanatory Models in the Biology of
       Behavior," in Science as Social Knowledge, pp. 133-61.
    Evelyn Fox Keller, "A World of Difference," in Reflections
       on Gender and Science, pp. 158-76.
    Donna Haraway, "The Biological Enterprise: Sex, Mind, and
       Profit from Human Engineering to Sociobiology," in
       Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, pp. 43-68.
    Marion Namenwirth, "Science Seen through a Feminist Prism,"
       in Feminist Approaches to Science, ed. Ruth Bleier, pp.
       18-41.
    Evelyn Fox Keller, "From Secrets of Life to Secrets of
       Death," in Body/Politics, ed. Mary Jacobus, E. F. Keller,
       and Sally Shuttleworth, pp. 177-91.

    15 April: STANDPOINT THEORIES AND THE RELEVANCE OF SOCIAL
    LOCATION.

    Nancy Hartsock, "The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the
       Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical
       Materialism," in Discovering Reality, pp. 283-310.
    Kathryn Pyne Addelson, "The Man of Professional Wisdom," in
       Discovering Reality, ed. Sandra Harding and Merrill
       Hintikka, pp. 165-86.
    Sandra Harding, "'Strong Objectivity' and Socially Situated
       Knowledge," in Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?, pp.
       138-63.
    Patricia Hill Collins, "Learning from the Outsider Within:
       The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought,"
       in Beyond Methodology, ed. Mary Margaret Fonow and Judith
       A. Cook, pp. 35-59.
    bell hooks, "Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical
       Openness," in Yearning, pp. 145-53.
    Una Narayan, "The Project of Feminist Epistemology:
       Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist," in
       Gender/Body/Knowledge, ed. Alison Jaggar and Susan Bordo,
       pp. 256-69.
    Sandra Harding, "Who Knows?" Identities and Feminist
       Epistemology," in (En)Gendering Knowledge, ed. Joan
       Hartman and Ellen Messer-Davidow, pp. 100-15.

    22 April: THE THREE R'S: REALISM, RATIONALITY, AND
    RELATIVISM.

    Richard Boyd, "On the Current Status of Scientific Realism,"
       in The Philosophy of Science, ed. Richard Boyd, Philip
       Gasper, and J.D. Trout, pp. 195-222.
    Arthur Fine, "The Natural Ontological Attitude," in The
       Philosophy of Science, ed. Richard Boyd, Philip Gasper,
       and J.D. Trout, pp. 261-77.
    Barry Barnes and David Bloor, "Relativitism, Rationalism,
       and the Sociology of Knowledge," in Rationality and
       Relativism, ed. M. Hollis and S. Lukes, pp. 21-47.
    Ronald Giere, "Realism in the Laboratory," in Explaining
       Science, pp. 111-140.
    Helen Longino, "Values and Objectivity," in Science as
       Social Knowledge, pp. 62-82.
    Anne Seller, "Realism versus Relativism: Towards a
       Politically Adequate Epistemology," in Feminist
       Perspectives in Philosophy, ed. Morwenna Griffiths and
       Margaret Whitford, pp. 169-86.

    29 April: THE NATURALISTIC TURN.

    Willard van Orman Quine, "Epistemology Naturalized," in
       Ontological Relativity and Other Essays, pp. 69-90.
    Hilary Putnam, "Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized," Synthese
       52:3-23 (1982). Reprinted in Realism and Reason, ed. H.
       Putnam, Philosophical Papers, Vol. 3, pp. 229-247, and in
       After Philosophy, ed. Kenneth Baynes, James Bohman, and
       Thomas McCarthy, pp. 222-44.
    Lynne Hankinson Nelson, "Introduction" and "Quine: Science
       (Almost) Without Boundaries," in Who Knows: From Quine to
       a Feminist Epistemology, pp. 3-19 and 82-136.
    Ronald N. Giere, "The Cognitive Study of Science," In The
       Process of Science: Contemporary Philosophical Approaches
       to Understanding Science. N. Nersessian, ed., Dordrecht:
       Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 139-159.

    6 May: RESPONSIBILITY--EPISTEMIC, MORAL, POLITICAL: A
    FEMINIST SCIENCE?

    Lorraine Code, "Remapping the Epistemic Domain" and "A
       Feminist Epistemology?" in What Can She Know?, pp.
       265-324.
    bell hooks and Cornel West, "The Dilemma of the Black
       Intellectual" (CW) and "Black Women Intellectuals" (bh)
       in Breaking Bread, pp. 131-46.
    Ruth Hubbard, "Science, Facts, and Feminism," in Feminism
       and Science, pp. 119-31.
    Helen Longino, "Can There Be a Feminist Science?," in
       Feminism and Science, pp. 45-57.
    Evelyn Fox Keller, "The Gender/Science System: or, Is Sex to
       Gender as Nature Is to Science?," in Feminism and
       Science, pp. 33-44.
    Hilary Rose, "Hand, Brain, and Heart: A Feminist
       Epistemology for the Natural Sciences," in Signs 9:1
       (Autumn 1983: 73-90).
    Naomi Scheman, "Who Wants to Know?: The Epistemological
       Value of Values," in (En)Gendering Knowledge, pp.
       179-200.

    13, 20, 27 May; 3 June: STUDENT GROUP PRESENTATIONS