In this pioneering new book, Sandra Harding and Robert Figueroa bring together an important collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diversity issues for the philosophy of science and technology. The essays gathered in this volume extend current philosophical discussion of science and technology beyond the standard feminist and gender analyses that have flourished over the past two decades, by bringing a thorough and truly diverse set of cultural, racial, and ethical concerns to bear on questioning in these areas. "Science and Other Cultures" charts…mehr
In this pioneering new book, Sandra Harding and Robert Figueroa bring together an important collection of original essays by leading philosophers exploring an extensive range of diversity issues for the philosophy of science and technology. The essays gathered in this volume extend current philosophical discussion of science and technology beyond the standard feminist and gender analyses that have flourished over the past two decades, by bringing a thorough and truly diverse set of cultural, racial, and ethical concerns to bear on questioning in these areas. "Science and Other Cultures" charts important new directions in ongoing discussions of science and technology, and makes a significant contribution to both scholarly and teaching resources available in the field.
Robert Figueroa teaches in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Colgate University. He has published essays on environmental justice and Latino identity. SandraHarding is a Professor of Education and Women's Studies at UCLA. She is the author and editor of over ten books including Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (1991) and IsScience Multicultural? (1998) and has served as a consultant to several United Nations organizations.
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Science and Other CulturesSandra Harding and Robert FigueroaPart I Sciences in Cultures, Cultures in SciencesAIDS, Crisis, and Activist ScienceRobert HoodWhy Standpoint MattersAlison WylieA World of SciencesSandra HardingTo Walk in Balance: An Encounter between Contemporary Western Science and Conquest-era Nahua PhilosophyJames MaffieSeeds and their SocioCultural NexusHugh LaceyFallout: Issues in the Study, Treatment, and Reparations of Exposed Marshall IslandersRobert P. CreasePart II: Classifying People: Science and Technology at Our ServiceEssentially Empirical: The Roles of Biological and Legal Classification in Effectively Prohibiting Genetic DiscriminationAnita Silvers and Michael Ashley SteinRethinking Normalcy, Normalization and Cognitive DisabilityLicia CarlsonConformity through Cosmetic Surgery: The Medical Erasure of Race and DisabilitySara GoeringThe Wisconsin Card Sort: An Empirical and Philosophical Analysis of Presuppositions Regarding Flexibility of CognitionSara WallerGeography and Ideas of RaceNaomi ZackQueer Nature, Circular ScienceMargaret CuonzoPart III: Tradition and Modernity: Issues in Philosophies of Technological ChangeTechnology in a Global WorldAndrew FeenbergCreativity of Technology and the Modernization Process of JapanJunichi MurataContributors
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Science and Other CulturesSandra Harding and Robert FigueroaPart I Sciences in Cultures, Cultures in SciencesAIDS, Crisis, and Activist ScienceRobert HoodWhy Standpoint MattersAlison WylieA World of SciencesSandra HardingTo Walk in Balance: An Encounter between Contemporary Western Science and Conquest-era Nahua PhilosophyJames MaffieSeeds and their SocioCultural NexusHugh LaceyFallout: Issues in the Study, Treatment, and Reparations of Exposed Marshall IslandersRobert P. CreasePart II: Classifying People: Science and Technology at Our ServiceEssentially Empirical: The Roles of Biological and Legal Classification in Effectively Prohibiting Genetic DiscriminationAnita Silvers and Michael Ashley SteinRethinking Normalcy, Normalization and Cognitive DisabilityLicia CarlsonConformity through Cosmetic Surgery: The Medical Erasure of Race and DisabilitySara GoeringThe Wisconsin Card Sort: An Empirical and Philosophical Analysis of Presuppositions Regarding Flexibility of CognitionSara WallerGeography and Ideas of RaceNaomi ZackQueer Nature, Circular ScienceMargaret CuonzoPart III: Tradition and Modernity: Issues in Philosophies of Technological ChangeTechnology in a Global WorldAndrew FeenbergCreativity of Technology and the Modernization Process of JapanJunichi MurataContributors
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