Sharon Crasnow

Norco College, Arts, Humanities, and World Languages, Emerita

Durham University, Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society, Associate Member

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My main areas of research are philosophy of science, with an emphasis on the social sciences, and feminist epistemology. Most recently I have been working on issues of methodology in political science, the epistemology of case study research, evidence for causal claims in the social science, and feminist epistemology. While I have retired from teaching, I remain active professionally. I am a Distinguished Professor Emerita at Norco College and a research associate of the Centre for Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) at Durham University (Durham, UK).

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Out From the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy

Out from the Shadows showcases the work of 18 analytical feminists from a variety of traditional ... more Out from the Shadows showcases the work of 18 analytical feminists from a variety of traditional areas of philosophy: social and political philosophy, normative ethics, virtue theory, metaethics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science. The collection is unique both in its focus on analytical feminism and in its breadth across the subdisciplines within philosophy. The book highlights successful uses of concepts and approaches from traditional philosophy, and illustrates the contributions that feminist approaches have made and could make to the analysis of issues in key areas of traditional philosophy, while also demonstrating that traditional philosophy ignores feminist insights and feminist critiques of traditional philosophy at its own peril.

Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture

The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of... more The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. The essays examine visual, print, and performance media — stand-up comedy, movies, television, and a blockbuster trilogy of novel. These philosophical feminist analyses of popular culture consider the possibilities, both positive and negative, that popular culture presents for articulating the structure of the social and cultural practices in which gender matters, and for changing these practices if and when they follow from, lead to, or perpetuate discrimination on the basis of gender. The essays bring feminist voices to the conversation about gender where is it taking place and attest to the importance of feminist critique in what is sometimes claimed to be a post-feminist era.

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Feminist anthropology and sociology

Publisher Summary There are a variety of ways in which one could examine feminist contributions t... more Publisher Summary There are a variety of ways in which one could examine feminist contributions to anthropology and sociology within the context of a handbook on philosophy of science. The first and most obvious is to simply catalogue the various contributions that feminism has made to each of these disciplines, in part through the increasing presence of women in these fields. A second possibility would be to note the changes in content that feminism has worked in these two fields, and, indeed, there have been many such changes. Using Harding's terminology, the “victimology” project of chronicling the various forms of neglect caused by androcentric science falls into this category. This approach is more germane to the question of how feminism affected the development of anthropology and sociology. These two approaches to the role of feminism in shaping anthropology and sociology deal only with the addition of women and women's concerns to an existing discipline, both when women are the scientists and when they and their lives become the object of study. Feminism offers something unique, revolutionary, or transforming for these social sciences only if it tackles the theoretical frameworks and methodologies that define these sciences.

Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy

Oxford University Press eBooks, Feb 23, 2023

Feminist Philosophy of Science as Social Epistemology

Routledge eBooks, Jul 19, 2019

Political science methodology: A plea for pluralism

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Dec 1, 2019

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