PHIL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Epistemic Virtue, Rationality
10 May 2016
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Recall kitcher on the aims of science: we should aim for theories that are : objectively accurate, longino (a feminist philosopher of science) agrees, so some extent: i. ii. She thinks we should aim for true, or at least epistemically rational theories. But as we"ll see, it"s not clear that she thinks we have a good chance of achieving this part of the goal: significant, longino agrees, but is more specific: i. She is particularly interested in representing feminists who think that one type of significant theories we should aim for are ones that help diminish sex discrimination and oppression. Why is she pessimistic about achieving our aim of objective accuracy (or even. We face a catch 22 (circular problem) when aiming for objective accuracy/epistemic. Rationality: empirical adequacy is an epistemic virtue that can help us meet the goal, but it"s seldom enough on its own, but there is no other back-up!
