Chapter Zero Ending(s) (original) (raw)

2016

Abstract

This chapter begins by looking at some of the foundational ideas in epistemology, from Plato’s attempts to differentiate between knowledge and belief, to Rene Descartes’s rejection of previous ideas and development of a “method of doubt,” to John Locke’s turn toward experiential data and empiricism. Calvin demonstrates ways in which ideas central to all three of these thinkers were grounded in gendered concepts, and they have had profound consequences over time. The chapter then examines some ways in which feminist philosophers have devised a number of strategies to avoid or counteract those biases.

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