Meta-Philosophical Reflection on Feminist Philosophies of Science

Chapter 1. Some Key Topics in Feminist Philosophies of Science, Maria Cristina Amoretti and Nicla Vassallo.- Chapter 2. On the Possibility of Feminist Philosophy of Physics, Maralee Harrell.- Chapter 3. Climate Change through the Lens of Feminist Philosophy, Nancy Tuana.- Chapter 4. Feminist and Non-Feminist Philosophy of Biology: Parallels, Differences, and Prospects for Future Engagements, Lynn Hankinson-Nelson.- Chapter 5. Feminist Values, Commercial Values, and the Bias Paradox in Biomedical Research, Kristen Intemann and Inmaculada de Melo-Martín.- Chapter 6. Values and Evidence in Feminist Philosophy and in Neuroscience, Robyn Bluhm.- Chapter 7. The Reason/Emotion Divide in Contemporary Philosophy of Psychology, Michelle Maiese.- Chapter 8. Values in the Social Sciences: The Case of Feminist Research, Kristina Rolin.- Chapter 9. This is Not a Manifesto: Archaeology and Feminism, Pamela L. Geller.- Chapter 10. Measuring the Value of Women: A Feminist Analysis of Economic Categories and Thought, Ruth Hagengruber.- Chapter 11. The Woman of Reason: On the Re-Appropriation of Rationality and the Enjoyment of Philosophy, Pieranna Garavaso.- Chapter 12. Feminist Versus General Philosophy of Science, Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti.

Maria Cristina Amoretti, Ph.D. in Philosophy, is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Genoa where she also lectured the postgraduate courses of Methodology of human sciences, Visual communication, and Philosophy and logic of science. Previously, she had been research fellow at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Genoa, at the Department of Information Technologies and Communication, CNR, Rome (2010), and Visiting Research Fellow at King's College, London (2012-2013). Her main areas of specialization are philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. More precisely, she has been studying the natural basis and the social dimensions of mind, knowledge, and rationality, the interactions between thought and language, the debate between internalism and externalism about content, and some aspects of philosophy of medicine. The results of those researches were presented at many national and international congresses, and published in several articles and chapters, both in Italian and English. Among her books, she has authored "La mente fuori dal corpo" (FrancoAngeli 2011) and "Il triangolo dell'interpretazione" (FrancoAngeli 2008), co-authored "Piccolo trattato di epistemologia" (Codice Edizioni 2010), edited "Natura umana, natura artificiale" (FrancoAngeli 2010), and co-edited "Reason and Rationality" (Ontos 2012), "Disaccordo" (Mimesis 2012), "Triangulation" (Ontos 2011), "Knowledge, Language, and Interpretation" (Ontos 2008), and "Conoscenza e verità" (Giuffré 2007). She has been a member of the organization and scientific committee of many national and international congresses; a member of several local, national, and international research projects; a referee for national and international journals; a member of the lab of Applied Logic and Philosophical Information (LAIF) at the University of Genoa. At present, she is Vice President of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA).

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