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Monday, May 4, 2009

Epistemology

This article gives some conclusions and points in the area of epistemology. Also such kind of analysis pays attention to some mistakes or misunderstandings in this theory and gives it in different context connecting with the modernist, relativism and others suppositions. It begins with a kind of introduction of the epistemology’s point, then definite philosophical lines are pointed out, with all this major settled points and arguments can be under the discussion.Relativism and essentialism also rise up some point connecting with this problem, during this article different ideas will be added to those discussed by modernism and post-modernism. And in the end of this piece of writing we can find a kind of modern tendencies proposed by the feminist interest group.

Opening part of the article, a kind of preamble:

The idea of feminist epistemology appeared in the period of the second-wave theorists but nevertheless it could be recognize as a separate body of work.

As an alternative, it became like a wide-ranging theory discussing the questions connected to that kind of awareness concentrated on the questions such as: has or has not feminism some perspectives in epistemology, tactics and philosophy, metaphysics in this science.
In 1990s feminist epistemology was accepted as a separate studying field. In the late 1990s it was named as substantive and well-known body of work.This summarizing illustrates the main points of feminist theory. First of all, the major tops are defined; secondly, the very development of the theory. Then epistemology main explanations are given, also the questions concerning “women” truth supported by their own experience. And the final part is about the replacement of the standpoint theory by means of critics and thought of relativism as well as essentialism. Also the suppositions of modernism and post-modernism are given in order get more from the standpoint epistemology

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