In defense of Bacon

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 25 (2):192-215 (1995)
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Abstract

Feminist science critics, in particular Sandra Harding, Carolyn Merchant, and Evelyn Fox Keller, claim that misogynous sexual metaphors played an important role in the rise of modern science. The writings of Francis Bacon have been singled out as an especially egregious instance of the use of misogynous metaphors in scientific philosophy. This paper offers a defense of Bacon.

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The death of nature.Carolyn Merchant - forthcoming - Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology.
Who knows: from Quine to a feminist empiricism.Lynn Hankinson Nelson - 1990 - Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
The Science Question in Feminism.Sandra Harding - 1988 - Hypatia 3 (1):157-168.

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