SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Statistics, Male Privilege, Micro Instrumentation And Telemetry Systems
3 Nov 2015
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Background and publications first english feminist and first christian feminist contribution to methodology. Shared conservative politics of the established church the divine right of the sovereign to rule. Serious proposal for the ladies": part 1 1694, part 2 1697. Some reflections upon marriage" (1700), based on an actual case demonstrating the legal disabilities of women: fierce opposition to locke"s liberal politics. Allowed a limited place for innate ideas. Cartesian terminology: need to exercise cartesian doubt. Defining knowledge in terms of clear and distinct ideas. Considerable scope for opinion : methodology was comparative, subjectivity of judgement was apparent to her. She warned of the possibilities of error in sense perception: sometimes the regard for the opinions of others fail us. Ignorance then can"t be avoided but error may : our senses make errors. 3 modes of thinking: faith, science and opinion each with its own limits. Skeptical of the reliability of the senses; and of reason.
