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Feminist Epistemology and the Extent of the Social

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Abstract

Many feminist epistemologists have been inclined to embrace socialized epistemology. There are, however, many different theses that go by that name. Sandra Harding, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, and Elizabeth Potter hold various of these theses, but their reasons for holding those theses, while they do support less ambitious theses, do not support the theses they are offered to support.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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