Philosophy of Science 72 (5):1001-1012 (2005)
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Several feminist philosophers of science have tried to open up the possibility that feminist ethical or political commitments could play a positive role in good science by appealing to the Duhem-Quine thesis and underdetermination of theories by observation. I examine several different interpretations of the claim that feminist values could play a legitimate role in theory justification and show that none of them follow from a logical gap between theory and observation. Finally, I sketch an alternative approach for defending the possibility that feminist political commitments could play a legitimate role in science.
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Keywords | Underdetermination Values Feminism Philosophy of Science |
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DOI | 10.1086/508956 |
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