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A Review Of The Scientific View In Feminist Vision

Posted on:2016-10-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M Y HuiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2270330473460363Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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With the development of modern science and technology, especially the spread of science knowledge and ideas, the research for feminism gradually penetrates into natural science from humanity and social sciences, and from political movements to the whole cultural relevance ever since the 1960s. Specifically, the starting point of feminism is to seek the reason for "the phenomenon of the relative absence of female in science", and treat the revealing of the existence of gender difference and gender discrimination in scientific research as the origin. The feminism makes an in-depth criticism and analysis to the gender bias in science activities. Both the structure of science cognitive subject and the basic knowledge of science cognitive theory consist of gender bias without exceptions and implies the discrimination against female.Generally speaking, "Social gender" produced by "society shapes different gender" is the key concept of feminism theory which is considered as the most powerful tool for criticizing science by feminism. It does not only advance the criticism from feminism to patriarchal culture, but also spur the feminist making the final goal as building a kind of real objective and fair feminism science which can overcome the existing male-centered prejudice. The feminists hope their work can reflect the picture of science and society and provide a better thinking perspective and knowledge system by their own efforts. However, as a different surveying the traditional theory of knowledge point of view, feminism theory of knowledge forms the shock to the traditional theory of knowledge can not be ignored.This paper focuses on the scientific concept of feminism to sort out the analysis, from the perspective of cultural diversity attempt feminist scientific study of the scientific concept, and tap its rich connotation of scientific ideas and theories. Firstly, the history and main schools of feminism do a summary of the presentation, explained the background of feminist scientific concept of reality generated, then feminist critique of science and reconstruction were highlighted, the last of the Feminist Scientific View reviews that it has a rich philosophy of science research and Chinese women are fully aware of their potential practical significance, and on some major issues Feminist scientific View for the analysis, pointed out its shortcomings.
Keywords/Search Tags:Feminism, feminist view of science, criticism, reconstruction, evaluation
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