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The Very Idea of a Care-based Epistemology The Very Idea of a Care-based Epistemology
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Caring and Knowing Caring and Knowing
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What Makes Epistemology ‘Care-based’? What Makes Epistemology ‘Care-based’?
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Care-based Epistemology versus Moral Epistemology Care-based Epistemology versus Moral Epistemology
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Care and Feminist Epistemology Care and Feminist Epistemology
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A Feminist Analysis of Knowledge A Feminist Analysis of Knowledge
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Care in the Service of Feminist Epistemology Care in the Service of Feminist Epistemology
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Care-based Epistemology, Maternal Thinking, and Standpoint Epistemology Care-based Epistemology, Maternal Thinking, and Standpoint Epistemology
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Care and ‘Feminist Virtue Epistemology’ Care and ‘Feminist Virtue Epistemology’
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Intellectual Virtue and Caring Intellectual Virtue and Caring
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Care as a ‘Feminist’ Intellectual Virtue Care as a ‘Feminist’ Intellectual Virtue
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Adding the Voice of the Mahābhārata Adding the Voice of the Mahābhārata
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Care Ethics and Virtue Epistemology in the Mahābhārata Care Ethics and Virtue Epistemology in the Mahābhārata
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Some Initial Objections Answered Some Initial Objections Answered
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The Crosscurrents Framing a Care-based Epistemology The Crosscurrents Framing a Care-based Epistemology
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Care Ethics versus Virtue Theory Care Ethics versus Virtue Theory
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Care versus Feminist Ethics Care versus Feminist Ethics
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Preview of Chapters Preview of Chapters
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Notes Notes
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1 Care-based Epistemology and the Comparative Feminist Context
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Published:June 2016
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Abstract
This chapter argues for extending insights of care ethics into a theory of knowledge. It lays out the motivations behind constructing a feminist virtue epistemology founded on what could be called the intellectual virtue of relational humility, which is also the motivation underlying successful interpersonal caring encounters. It distinguishes such a ‘care-based’ embodied knowing from some other feminist interventions in the theory of knowledge like Sandra Harding’s standpoint theory, Sara Ruddick’s maternal thinking and Miranda Fricker’s epistemic virtues to counter epistemic injustice. It then introduces the viability of the Mahābhārata as a dialogic partner to care ethics and virtue epistemology and gestures towards the methodological framework of a comparative feminist philosophy. The chapter indicates the inherently unstable (and thereby, interesting) intersectional space constituted by feminist care ethics, analytic virtue epistemology and a patriarchal Sanskrit epic within which the argument of the book is situated.
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