Phil/WmSt 354
                                   Seminar
                           Professor: Ruth Ginzberg
                   Undergrad TA: Jessica Beebe (SiSP: '92).

         Topic:  Recent Feminist Criticisms of Philosophy of Science

Week I:         (9/10, 9/12)  -  Intro, Overview, Organizational Business.
Start Merchant.

Seminar Facilitators:   9/10: RG
                        9/12: ____________________________
Additional readings or assignments:


Week II:        (9/17, 9/19)  - Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature:  Women,
Ecology and the Scientific Revolution.  Ecofeminism.  Historical deconstruction
of masculinity in science.  Further reading, if interested:  Susan Griffin,
Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her;  Alan S. Miller, Gaia Connections;
Genevieve Lloyd, The Man of Reason:  "Male" and "Female" in Western Philosophy.

Seminar Facilitators:   9/17: ____________________________
                        9/19: ____________________________
Additional readings or assignments:


Week III:       (9/24, 9/26: PROCESS DAY)  - finish Merchant
Seminar Facilitators:   9/24: ____________________________
                        9/26: (PROCESS DAY: RG)
Additional readings or assignments:


Week IV:        (10/1, 10/3) Lorraine Code, What Can She Know?  Feminist Theory
and the Construction of Knowledge.   Theories of knowledge: Is the sex of the
knower epistemologically significant? Further reading: "Great (!) bibliography
in the back of this book"

Seminar Facilitators:   10/1: ____________________________
                        10/3: ____________________________
Additional readings or assignments:


Week V:         (10/8, 10/10)  -  Lorraine Code
Seminar Facilitators:   10/8: ____________________________
                        10/10: ____________________________
Additional readings or assignments:


Week VI:        (10/15: PLANNING DAY: BK RVW PROJECT; 10/17)  -  start Longino
Seminar Facilitators:   10/15: (PLANNING DAY: JB/RG)
                        10/17: ____________________________
Additional readings or assignments:


Week VII:       (10/22: NO SCHOOL, 10/24) Helen Longino: Science as Social
Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry.   Contextual
empiricism. Further reading: Ybibliography in the back of this book"  See also:
Joseph Rouse, Syllabus, Local Knowledge  Seminar, Wesleyan, spring '91

Seminar Facilitators:   10/8: NO SCHOOL (FALL BREAK)
                        10/24: ____________________________
Additional readings or assignments:


Week VIII:      (10/29: PROCESS DAY, 10/31)  finish Longino
Seminar Facilitators:   10/29: (PROCESS DAY: RG)
                        10/31: ____________________________
Additional readings or assignments:


Week IX:        (11/5, 1/7)  -  Sandra Harding,  Whose Science?  Whose
Knowledge?  Thinking from Women's Lives

Seminar Facilitators:   11/5: ____________________________
                        11/17: ____________________________
Additional readings or assignments:


Week X:         (11/12, 11/14: PLANNING DAY: BK RVW PROJECT)  -  Harding
Seminar Facilitators:   11/12: ___________________________
                        11/14: (PLANNING DAY: JB/RG)
Additional readings or assignments:


Week XI:        (11/19, 11/21)  -  finish Harding /  begin Nelson
Seminar Facilitators:   11/19: ___________________________
                        11/21: ____________________________
Additional readings or assignments:


Week XII:       (11/26, 11/28: NO SCHOOL)  -  Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Who Knows:
from Quine to a feminist empiricism.

Seminar Facilitators:   11/26: ___________________________
                        11/28: NO SCHOOL
Additional readings or assignments:


Week XIII:      (12/3, 12/5 )  -  Nelson
Seminar Facilitators:   12/3: ___________________________
                        12/5: ____________________________

Additional readings or assignments:

Week XIV:       (12/10: PROCESS DAY)  -  Last Scheduled Day of Class. Wrap up,
review, & pizza. All papers due, incl. BK RVW PROJECT.

Seminar Facilitators:   12/10: (PROCESS DAY: RG)
Additional readings or assignments:

Texts:  Lorraine Code, What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction
of Knowledge,  Ithaca and London: Cornell U. Press, 1991.  ISBN 0-8014-9720-5.

Sandra Harding, Whose Science?  Whose Knowledge?  Thinking from women's lives,
Ithaca, NY: Cornell U. Press, 1991.  ISBN 0-8014-9746-9.                no,

Helen Longino Science as Social Knowledge                               ry,
Princeton, NJ: Princeton U. Press, 1990.  ISBN 0-691-02051-5.

Carolyn Merchang.  The Death of Nature: Women Ecology and the Scientifiction,
Revolution. Harper & Row 1980 (I believe there's a new edition out now. New

Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Who Knows: From Quine to a femin                 ist
empiricism.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1990.              ISBN
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Grading:  Class Participation (25%); Each person will keep a seminar journal,
which I will collect, and which either Jessica Beebe or I (or both of us) will
read periodically (15%);  Each person will be responsible for at least one
seminar presentation (specifics discussed in the first organizational meeting)
(25%);  Each person will write 1 "long" paper (usually on the topic of your
seminar presentation) (20%) and between 1-3 "short" papers (5% each if you
write three papers; 7.5% each if two; 15% if one; your choice).  Work on the BK
RVW PROJECT (see below) will count as part of your written work, probably as 1
or more "short" papers.

(...administrative details about library, etc., omitted...)
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Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA