Feminist Epistemology
This source of wisdom and knowledge has been traditionally & historically suppressed.
What is women's knowledge/wisdom?
Knowledge of the world based on one’s experiences, particularly one’s sensory experiences.
What is empirical knowledge?
The stories we hear, learn, internalise, and tell that uphold existing power structures.
What is a dominant narrative?
The systematic and targeted attempt to make someone doubt their perceptions in general or their capacity for accurate perception.
What is gaslighting?
This is needed in order for your belief in something to be justified.
What is one justifier?
The practice of identifying how your subjectivity influences your worldview, research, and knowledge sharing.
What is reflexivity?
One of the major questions asked in the philosophy of epistemology.
What is
- What is knowledge?
- What does it mean to know something?
- How do we acquire knowledge?
- How much do we, or can we know?
- Are some things unknowable?
The notion that a multitude of truths exist.
What is relativism?
Takes place when a gap in the resources for understanding allows for an abuse of power
What is hermeneutical injustice?
This philosopher said:
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is perspective, not the truth.”
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
A specific example of one way patriarchy impacts society/culture.
Open ended
e.g. rape culture, domestic violence, wage gaps, #gamergate, etc.
What you hold to be true about your experience of the world
Scholarship of the East, specifically of the Arab Islamic World by Westerners, is biased and projects a false and stereotypical vision of “otherness”.
What is Orientalism?
Based on judgments made about a speaker’s reliability and trustworthiness as a knower.
What is credibility?
The validity of a truth is assessed based on its usefulness.
What is the pragmatic theory of truth?
The term for being ignorant of one's own ignorance.
What is meta-ignorance?
2 examples of a priori knowledge statements.
a priori knowledge is any knowledge a person has that they did not learn from their experiences. Truth of an a priori statement does not depend on one's experiences of the world!
For example:
all apples are fruit
This school of thought and movement posits that there is no such thing as objective truth.
What is postmodernism?
5 examples of hermeneutical resources that close gaps in the framework for understanding human sexuality.
What are:
- straight -gay -lesbian -asexual -bisexual
-pansexual - queer etc.
Provide two examples of types of justifiers.
What are
A Priori Knowledge, Deduction, Fatalism, Groupthink, Hedonism, Intuition, Law of Nature, Occam's Razor, Probability Theory, Scientific Method
?
Striving for this type of standpoint produces unreliable knowledge filled with unacknowledged biases.
What is a "view from nowhere"?
The conditions that must be met for something to be considered knowledge.
What are justified, true, and believed?
The term psychologists use to explain the Mandela effect.
What is confabulation?
This occurs when people are marginalised and therefore unable to provide knowledge to construct shared understandings.
What is contributory injustice?
Provide an original example of deductive reasoning.
Open ended