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  • Science and Social Inequality

    Feminist and Postcolonial Issues

    by Sandra Harding ...
    Series series Race and Gender in Science
    In Science and Social Inequality, Sandra Harding makes the provocative argument that the philosophy and practices of today's Western science, contrary to its Enlightenment mission, work to insure that more science will only worsen existing gaps between the best and worst off around the world. She defends this claim by exposing the ways that hierarchical social formations in modern Western sciences ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Sciences from Below

    Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities

    by Sandra Harding, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

    Edited by Sandra Harding ...
    For twenty years, the renowned philosopher of science Sandra Harding has argued that science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and feminist critique must inform one another. In The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Harding puts those fields in critical conversation, assembling the anthology that she has long wanted for classroom use. In classic and recent essays, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Objectivity & Diversity

    Another Logic of Scientific Research

    by Sandra Harding ...
    An examination of how to establish truely objective scientific research methods, including knowledge derived from diverse cultures.Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be used to suppress ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science and Other Cultures

    Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology

    Edited by Sandra Harding, Robert Figueroa ...
    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 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Shorebirds of Australia

    Edited by Andrew Geering, Lindsay Agnew, Sandra Harding ...
    Winner of the 2008 Whitley Award for Field Guide. Shorebirds of Australia brings together the latest information about the evolution, ecology and behaviour of shorebirds and how they are distributed in Australia. Complete with colour photographs and up-to-date distribution maps, it provides descriptions and tips to assist with the identification of all species of shorebird in Australia, which ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Philosophical I

    Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy

    by Nicholas Rescher, Sandra Harding, Douglas Kellner, Nancey Murphy, Joseph Margolis, Richard Shusterman, Bat-Ami Bar On, John J. Stuhr, Thomas E. Wartenberg, Linda Martín Alcoff, Lorraine Code, John Lachs, Paul C. Taylor, Charles W. Mills, Nancy Tuana ...
    Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophically insightful, these personal narratives critically call into question the belief that philosophy should be kept separate from the personal experience of philosophers. Each contributor traces the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Discovering Reality

    Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

    Edited by Sandra Harding, Merrill B.P. Hintikka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Are Western epistemology, metaphysics, methodology and the philosophy of science grounded only in men's distinctive understandings of themselves, others, and nature? Does this less than human understanding distort our models of reason and of scientific inquiry? In different ways, the papers in this collection explore the evidence for these increasingly reasonable and intriguing questions. They ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Discovering Reality

    Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

    Edited by Sandra Harding, Merrill B. Hintikka † ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    During the last decade, feminist research has attempted to add understandings of women and their social activities to what we all thought we knew about nature and social life. However, from the very beginning of this project, it has appeared to be in tension with some ofthe most fundamental insightsof the Second Women's Movement. Only recently has the nature ofthis tension become clear. Within the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Can Theories be Refuted?

    Essays on the Duhem-Quine Thesis

    Edited by Sandra Harding ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    According to a view assumed by many scientists and philosophers of science and standardly found in science textbooks, it is controlled ex perience which provides the basis for distinguishing between acceptable and unacceptable theories in science: acceptable theories are those which can pass empirical tests. It has often been thought that a certain sort of test is particularly significant: ... Read more

    $251.09 USD

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    Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

    by Chandra Talpade Mohanty ...
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  • Social Theory of International Politics

    by Alexander Wendt ...
    Series Book 67 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Drawing upon philosophy and social theory, Social Theory of International Politics develops a theory of the international system as a social construction. Alexander Wendt clarifies the central claims of the constructivist approach, presenting a structural and idealist worldview which contrasts with the individualism and materialism which underpins much mainstream international relations theory. He ... Read more

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