Making up knowers : objectivity and categories of epistemic subjects

The aim of this dissertation is simple: to defend the epistemic concept of objectivity as one that has done and continues to do good ethical and epistemic work for some communities. Because of this good work, I argue, in contrast to philosophers like Richard Rorty and Lorraine Code, that objectivity...

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Main Author: Fellows, Jennifer Jill
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/36898