FEMINIST IDEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY EPISTEMOLOGY
FEMINIST IDEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY EPISTEMOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: Although the expression “feminist epistemology” can be considered a contradiction in terms – as M. B. Hesse maintains – because epistemology, as well as the science to which it is related is, at least at the programmatic level, independent of any interest and conception of a certain social group (defined by relating itself to a certain race, gender or religious option), lately, in the context of the development of a postmodern cultural pattern, feminine contributions to the development of science and, implicitly, of the epistemology, became a phenomenon that must be studied with the greatest attention. This is the reason why arguments have been advanced supporting the idea of a subsequent alternative science which might include a series of “feminine virtues”; the arguments rely on real phenomena belonging to the development of sciences which is characterized by the exponential growth of sciences, the multiplication of the scientific fields and the appearance of new basic concepts.

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