Feminist Epistemology: An Impossible Project?

Margareta Halberg ~ RP 053 (Autumn 1989) ~ Article

Feminist Epistemology: An Impossible Project? Margareta Halberg This paper takes up the recent epistemological turn in feminist theory and some of the problems thereby raised. The fundamental aim of feminist theories in general is to analyze (and change) gender relations. It may be argued that the term ‘epistemology’ in feminist discourse should not be defined […]

52 Reviews

Anne Phillips, Robert Stern, Andrew Dobson, Howard Feather, Peter Osborne and John R. Gibbins ~ RP 052 (Summer 1989) ~ Reviews

REVIEWS THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT? Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Oxford, Polity Press, 1988, 264pp., £27.50 hb, £8.95 pb. In the good old days when education was not yet subordinated to the market, and the study of politics was presumed to include acquaintance with classical texts as well as a working knowledge of computers, I used […]

Beyond Objectivism and Relativism

Ingvar Johansson ~ RP 047 (Autumn 1987) ~ Article

Beyond Objectivism and Relativism Ingvar Johansson One very important line of division in todayt s philosophy is between those who want to go beyond the dualism between objectivism and relativism and those who still think this dualism is a live option. On this issue t I side with Richard Rortyts view in Philosophy and the […]