The Case For Strategic Realism
A Response To Lawson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11626174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandra Harding (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 127-133 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-5701 • E-ISSN: 1466-4372 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/135457099337842 |
| OpenAlex | W2003053410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 6 |
Tony Lawson makes a compelling case that it is only naive realism that feminist social scientists and philosophers need to avoid, not any and all realist arguments. However, he leaves mysterious, on the one hand, why so many feminists have preferred epistemological to ontological arguments and, on the other hand, why naive realism, which is indeed problematic, can appear to be a good scientific/epistemic strategy. The essay below tries to demystify these phenomena, notes a possible misleading aspect of his use of the term "epistemological relativism", and argues for a somewhat more limited value of the ontological argument he proposes for standpoint epistemologies
Argument (complex analysis · Critical realism (philosophy of perception · Epistemology · Realism · Relativism · Scientific realism · Sociology · Term (time · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy
Agency and Ontology within Intersectional Analysis
Critical Realism and Post-Structuralist Feminism
Critical realism and post-structuralist feminism
Feminist Standpoints and Critical Realism. The Contested Materiality of Difference in Intersectionality and New Materialism
Pluralism, poverty and sharecropping
Area Studies/Asian Studies
Being undisciplined. On Your Marx
Epistemology Contextualized
Political Science/Political Theory
Area Studies/Asian Studies
Anthropology
Philosophy and Critical Realism
Philosophy and Standpoint Theory
Sociology
Sociology and Economics
Ontologia e gênero
Comparações odiosas
Epistemology Contextualized
Synthesizing Feminist and Critical Realist Approaches to Housing Studies
Introduction
Who Dares to Care? (In the World of Finance)
Ontology and Feminist Theorizing
Black lives and bodywork matters
Political Economy and Childcare
The Truth of the Matter
Gender and Critical Realism
The Feminist Question in Realism
Odious Comparisons
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,12 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2023 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |