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Shifting ground : knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness /

This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental reorientation of epistemology. For some theorists, epis...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scheman, Naomi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Series:Studies in feminist philosophy.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Non-negotiable demands : metaphysics, politics, and the discourse of needs
  • Feminist epistemology
  • On waking up one morning and discovering that we are them
  • Terminal moraine
  • Against physicalism
  • Feeling our way toward moral objectivity
  • Queering the center by centering the queer : reflections on transsexuals and secular Jews
  • Forms of life : mapping the rough ground
  • The trustworthiness of research : the paradigm of community-based research (co-authored with Catherine Jordan and Susan Gust)
  • Narrative, complexity, and context : autonomy as an epistemic value
  • Epistemology resuscitated : objectivity as trustworthiness.