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The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science is a comprehensive resource for feminist thinking about and in the sciences. Its 33 chapters were written exclusively for this Handbook by a group of leading international philosophers as well as scholars in gender studies, women's studies, psychology, economics, and political science.


The chapters of the Handbook are organized into four main parts:


I. Hidden Figures and Historical Critique


II. Theoretical Frameworks


III. Key Concepts and Issues


IV. Feminist Philosophy of Science in Practice.


The chapters in this extensive, fourth part examine the relevance of feminist philosophical thought for a range of scientific and professional disciplines, including biology and biomedical sciences; psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience; the social sciences; physics; and public policy.


The Handbook gives a snapshot of the current state of feminist philosophy of science, allowing students and other newcomers to get up to speed quickly in the subfield and providing a handy reference for many different kinds of researchers. "Invaluable and inspiring. This up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive Handbook showcases the breadth of feminist contributions to philosophical studies at the nexus of science, power, social relations, and ethics."
Sarah S. Richardson, Harvard University, USA





"This outstanding volume amasses a wealth of diverse voices and topics within feminist philosophy of science. It will serve as a rich resource for both those curious about how feminism intersects with philosophy of science and those familiar with the field who want to explore its most recent developments and the many fresh topics that have found a home within the field. Readers will find within its pages a cornucopia of insightful reflections on the variety of ways in which feminists have contributed to philosophy of science and harnessed it to take up specific issues of feminist concern."
Heidi Grasswick, Middlebury College, USA

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science

Introduction

Sharon Crasnow and Kristen Intemann











Part I: Hidden Figures and Historical Critique





1. The Origins of Philosophy and Science in Ancient Greece: Material Culture and the Scarcity of Women

Joanne Waugh

2. Margaret Cavendish and the New Science: "Boys that play with watery bubbles or fling dust into each other's eyes, or make a hobbyhorse of snow"

Marcy Lascano

3. Emilie Du Chatelet: Feminism, Epistemology and Natural Philosophy

Karen Detlefsen

4. The Rocket Women of India: Eight Women Scientists and Their Roles in the 2014 Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM)

Deepanwita Dasgupta

5. Women's Contributions to the Philosophy of Science: A Bibliometric Analysis

Evelyn Brister and Dan Hicks





Part II: Frameworks

6. Feminist Empiricism

Kirstin Borgerson

7. Thinking Outside-In: Feminist Standpoint Theory as Epistemology, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science Cate Hundleby

8. Latin American Decolonial Feminist Philosophy of Knowledge Production

Sandra Harding and Breny Mendoza

9. Sciences of Consent: Indigenous Knowledge, Governance Value, and Responsibility

Kyle Whyte

10. Queer Science Studies/Queer Science

Kristina Gupta and David Rubin

11. Naturalizing and Denaturalizing Impairment and Disability in Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy of Science

Shelley Tremain

12. Epistemic Vices and Feminist Philosophies of Science

Ian James Kidd

13. "Where are all of the Pragmatist Feminist Philosophers of Science?"

Sharyn Clough and Nancy McHugh











Part III. Key concepts and Issues

14. Is Sex Socially Constructed?

Catherine Clune-Taylor

15. Feminist Perspectives on Values in Science

Kristen Intemann

16. Situated Knowledge and Objectivity

Kristina Rolin

17. Ignorance, Science, and Feminis

Manuela Fernandez Pinto

18. How the Facts Might Give Us Socially Responsible Science

Janet Kourany

19. Feminist Science for the People: Feminist approaches to public understanding of science and science il\literacy- Sara Giordano



Part IV. Feminist Philosophy of Science in Practice

Biology and Biomedical Sciences

20. Feminist Philosophy of Biology

Lynn Hankinson Nelson

21. Observing Primates: Gender, Power, and Knowledge in Primatology

Maria Botero

22. The Gendered Nature of Reprogenetic Technologies

Inmaculada de Melo-Martin

Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience

23. What's Wrong with (Narrow) Evolutionary Psychology

Letitia Meynell

24. Neurosexism and Our Understanding of Sex Differences in the Brain

Robyn Bluhm

25. Feminism and Cognitive Neuroscience

Vanessa Bentley

26. Implementing Intersectionality in Psychology with Quantitative Methods

Nicole M. Else-Quest and Janet Shibley Hyde

Social Science

27. Feminist Economics

Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper

28. Feminist Methodology in the Social Sciences

Sharon Crasnow

29. Feminist Approaches to Concepts and Conceptualization: Towards Better Science and Policy

Amy Mazur

The Physical Sciences

30. What is it like to be a woman in philosophy of physics?

Laura Ruetsche

31. Inclusivity in Engineering Education

Donna Reilly

Public Policy

32. Rethinking Debates About Pediatric Vaccine Safety: A Feminist View

Maya Goldenberg

33. The Hard Sell of Genetically Engineered (GE) Mosquitoes with Gene Drives as the Solution to Malaria: Ethical, Political, Epistemic, and Epidemiological Issues in Global Health Governance

Zahra Meghani