Four Types of Feminist Empiricism
Evelyn Barker Memorial Lecture
Thursday, March 26, 2015 · 4 - 5 PM
Miriam Solomon, Chair and Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
“Feminist empiricism” is a general term for a range of positions in philosophy of
science that aim to combine empirical methods with the insights of feminism. This talk will give an overview of feminist empiricist work in the natural and social sciences in order to showcase four different ways in which feminist critique can improve scientific work. The
relationship between the different feminist empiricisms and feminist
standpoint theory will also be discussed.
Bio:
Miriam Solomon is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair in the
Department of Philosophy at Temple University. She is also an Affiliated
Professor of Women’s Studies. Professor Solomon is a graduate of
Cambridge University (BA in Natural Sciences, 1979) and Harvard
University (Ph.D. in Philosophy, 1986). She is the author of Social Empiricism (MIT
Press, 2001), editor of several special journal issues, and author of
papers in epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine
and biomedical ethics. Her research interests are in philosophy of
science, philosophy of medicine, history of science, epistemology,
gender and science, and biomedical ethics. She is currently completing a
book on evidence-based medicine, medical consensus conferences,
narrative medicine and translational medicine, titled Making Medical Knowledge, to be published by Oxford University Press (UK).
Sponsored by the Philosophy Department, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the Gender and Women's Studies Department.