Illusions of Paradox: A Feminist Epistemology Naturalized

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Modern epistemology has run into several paradoxes in its efforts to explain how knowledge acquisition can be both socially based (and thus apparently context-relative) and still able to determine objective facts about the world. In this important book, Richmond Campbell attempts to dispel some of these paradoxes, to show how they are ultimately just "illusions of paradox," by developing ideas central to two of the most promising currents in epistemology: feminist epistemology and naturalized epistemology. Campbell's aim is to construct a coherent theory of knowing that is feminist and "naturalized." Illusions of Paradox will be valuable for students and scholars of epistemology and women's studies.

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"Campbell's proposal of a realist conception of values as well as facts is original and provocative. [E]ven those who have advocated a feminist and naturalized epistemology, myself included, have not advocated scientific or moral realism. Campbell makes a strong case for the view that feminist science critique and political critique would be strengthened by realism of both sorts, and a strong case for his approach to carving out viable accounts of each." - Lynne Hankinson-Nelson, Rowan University

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Richmond Campbell is Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University.; He is the author of Self-Love and Self-Respect and coeditor of Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation: Prisoner's Dilemma and Newcombe's Problem.