Nancy Tuana
Biographic Data
| ID | 498441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Tuana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuana |
| SIGNATURE | TUANA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5449-6097 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 308 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Guest Editor's Introduction
The articles in this special issue are a selection of those presented at the conference, “Critical Philosophy of Race after Ten Years,” held in March 2022. The conference commemorated the tenth year of publication of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race. Although philosophical engagement with the concept of race was not new to the field of philosophy, the journal, indeed the term “critical philosophy of race,” served as a catalyst for deepenin…
Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference: An Ecointersectional Analysis
Racial Climates, Ecological Indifference offers a powerful intervention to the field of climate justice scholarship by addressing a neglected aspect of the field of climate justice, namely systemic racisms. Building on the work of Black feminist theorists, the work develops an ecointersectional approach designed to reveal the depth and complexities of racial climates overlooked even in the environmental justice literature. The book’s conception o…
Feminist New Materialisms
This chapter offers an account of central issues and themes in feminist new materialism, including examples of important contributions to this discussion, as well as current and future directions. The chapter discusses three different sources for the conception of materialism engaged in the feminist new materialisms: (1) attention to materiality in the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and postmodern thought, (2) a turn to the sciences to…
Why Simpler Computer Simulation Models Can Be Epistemically Better for Informing Decisions
For computer simulation models to usefully inform climate risk management, uncertainties in model projections must be explored and characterized. Because doing so requires running the model many times over, and because computing resources are finite, uncertainty assessment is more feasible using models that demand less computer processor time. Such models are generally simpler in the sense of being more idealized, or less realistic. So modelers f…
Tango Dancing with María Lugones
This special issue is a response to María Lugones's provocative invitation to engage in a methodological move toward decolonial feminisms in the attempt to philosophize about the ways race and gender intersect and intermesh. As editors of this special issue, we believe that Lugones's challenge is especially important for those interested in liberatory philosophies, broadly, and the critical philosophy of race and feminist thought, specifically.Th…
Toward Decolonial Feminisms: Tracing the Lineages of Decolonial Thinking through Latin American/Latinx Feminist Philosophy
Survival can also be about keeping one's hopes alive; holding on to the projects that are projects insofar as they have yet to be realized. You might have to
Climate Apartheid: The Forgetting of Race in the Anthropocene
Despite recognition of the gender dimensions of climate change, there is little attention to racism in climate justice perspectives. In response, this article advocates developing an ecologically informed intersectional approach designed to disclose the ways racism contributes to the construction of illegible lives in the domain of climate policies and practices. Differential impacts of climate change, while an important dimension, is ultimately …
Liberal Feminist Perspectives
Liberal feminist theory has enjoyed a long history, originally promulgated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by such thinkers as Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Taylor, John Stuart Mill and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The values of liberalism, including the core belief in the importance and autonomy of the individual, developed in the seventeenth century. In fact, liberal political theory began as a rejection of patriarchal political theory: th…
Marxist Feminist Perspectives
In this chapter, the author utilizes the Marxist epistemology to develop a specifically feminist historical materialism—a methodology that analyzes all dimensions of social life in terms of the development of those material goods necessary to sustain human existence. In her essay "Reproducing Marxist Man," O&s;Brien faults traditional Marxists for maintaining that because men&s;s work is the only kind of work that counts as "real," the only cruci…
Perspectives on the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender
To a greater or lesser degree, each philosophers fails to see how race, ethnicity, class, religion, sexual identity, physical and psychological status, and age affect any and all gender-based analyses. Indeed, it has become painfully clear that the "feminist perspectives" professors and students tend to teach and learn reflect the interests of the white, extremely well-educated, and otherwise privileged Anglo-American or European women who have c…
Postmodern Feminist Perspectives
Attempts by feminists to establish one specifically feminist standpoint from which all women can see and speak have not gone without challenge. Postmodern feminists regard the search for woman&s;s voice and vision as yet another instantiation of "phallocentric" thought—the kind of "male thinking" that insists on telling only one, presumably true, story about reality. For postmodernists, such a search is neither feasible nor desirable. It is not f…
Radical Feminist Perspectives
Radical feminist analyses aim to identify those aspects of the social constructions of femininity that serve to ensure male domination. Although radical feminists have examined many issues and social institutions including medicine, religion, reproduction, racism, ecology, and political theory, among the most influential and vital of their critiques are those directed to the construction of women&s;s sexuality. Radical feminists were the first fe…
Phenomenological Feminist Perspectives
Phenomenological philosophy is rooted in the desire to ground philosophy in lived experiences. Initially developed by Edmund Husserl and significantly modified by Martin Heideggar and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, phenomenology was a response to the privileging of objectivity as the hallmark of reason. Phenomenology embraces the importance and centrality of human subjectivity—the flow of lived human experience—from which our theories and our reason eman…
Psychoanalytic Feminist Perspectives
According to psychoanalytic feminists, the root of women&s;s oppression is deeply embedded in the human psyche. The conscious aspects of personality—for example, one&s;s general self-concept and gender identity—are de pendent upon the stability of an unconscious organization that is completed by age three. A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics," Jane Flax makes the related point that the psychosexual development of boys and…
Anarcha Feminist and Ecological Feminist Perspectives
Anarcha feminism arose in response to perceived limitations of both liberal and Marxist feminism and was influenced by classical anarchist theory. Strongly committed to the development of anarchist communities, anarcha feminism is more grounded in political action than some other feminist perspectives. Anarcha feminists critique liberal feminists for their failure to reject hierarchy and privilege; they see liberal feminism as concerned only to m…
Socialist Feminist Perspectives
Socialist feminist theorists such as Zillah Eisenstein, Juliet Mitchell, and Sheila Rowbotham focused on an analysis of what they termed "capitalist patriarchy." Socialist feminists argue that an adequate understanding of woman&s;s oppression must recognize the sexual divisions in reproductive labor as well as productive labor. Clearly, socialist feminists are convinced that the elimination of oppression will involve reorganization of human repro…
Feminism and Philosophy: Essential Readings in Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application
Nepantla: Writing (from) the In-Between
The primary goal of this article is to find an interplay of concepts that will help us to write about the broad transformative potential of Gloria Anzaldúa's experiences of what she calls nepantla in her posthumously published Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality (2015). We want to integrate these concepts into our reading of her account of nepantla and to allow her language to further animate the force an…
Climate change and loss, as if people mattered: Values, places, and experiences
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) is seeking to prepare for losses arising from climate change. This is an emerging issue that challenges climate science and policy to engage more deeply with values, places, and people's experiences. We first provide insight into the UNFCCC framing of loss and damage and current approaches to valuation. We then draw on the growing literature on value‐ and place‐based approaches …
Tchange: The role of values and visioning in transformation science
Understanding scientists’ computational modeling decisions about climate risk management strategies using values-informed mental models
Mapping a Research Agenda Concerning Gender and Climate Change: A Review of the Literature
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Embedding philosophers in the practices of science: Bringing humanities to the sciences
Leading with ethics, aiming for policy: New opportunities for philosophy of science
Sexuality
This article traces public debates about sexual practices that have found their way into recent philosophical and other academic publications. It examines the ideals and standards some ethicists have proposed for guiding our sexual lives, even those lived away from the public spotlight. Many debates about sex concern sexual practices that transgress long-standing sexual mores, practices such as extramarital sex, same-sex sex, and paid sex. Debate…
The Speculum of Ignorance: The Women's Health Movement and Epistemologies of Ignorance
This essay aims to clarify the value of developing systematic studies of ignorance as a component of any robust theory of knowledge. The author employs feminist efforts to recover and create knowledge of women's bodies in the contemporary women's health movement as a case study for cataloging different types of ignorance and shedding light on the nature of their production. She also helps us understand the ways resistance movements can be a helpf…
Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance
Lay understanding and scientific accounts of female sexuality and orgasm provide a fertile site for demonstrating the importance of including epistemologies of ignorance within feminist epistemologies. Ignorance is not a simple lack. It is often constructed, maintained, and disseminated and is linked to issues of cognitive authority, doubt, trust, silencing, and uncertainty. Studying both feminist and nonfeminist understandings of female orgasm r…
Climate change and loss, as if people mattered: Values, places, and experiences
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) is seeking to prepare for losses arising from climate change. This is an emerging issue that challenges climate science and policy to engage more deeply with values, places, and people's experiences. We first provide insight into the UNFCCC framing of loss and damage and current approaches to valuation. We then draw on the growing literature on value‐ and place‐based approaches …
Embedding philosophers in the practices of science: Bringing humanities to the sciences
Introduction: Feminist Epistemologies of Ignorance
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Leading with ethics, aiming for policy: New opportunities for philosophy of science
Re-fusing nature/nurture
Tchange: The role of values and visioning in transformation science
Fleshing Gender, Sexing the Body: Refiguring the Sex/Gender Distinction
Toward Decolonial Feminisms: Tracing the Lineages of Decolonial Thinking through Latin American/Latinx Feminist Philosophy
Survival can also be about keeping one's hopes alive; holding on to the projects that are projects insofar as they have yet to be realized. You might have to
The Radical Future of Feminist Empiricism
I argue that Nelson's feminist transformation of empiricism provides the basis of a dialogue across three currently competing feminist epistemologies: feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint theories, and postmodern feminism, a dialogue that will result in a dissolution of the apparent tensions between these epistemologies and provide an epistemology with the openness and fluidity needed to embrace the concerns of feminists
The Weaker Seed. The Sexist Bias of Reproductive Theory
This history of reproductive theories from Aristotle to the preformationists provides an excellent illustration of the ways in which the gender /science system informs the process of scientific investigation. In this essay I examine the effects of the bias of woman's inferiority upon theories of human reproduction. I argue that the adherence to a belief in the inferiority of the female creative principle biased scientific perception of the nature…
Quinn on Duhem: An Emendation
In recent years there has been a rebirth of interest in the philosophy of Pierre Duhem. Although I applaud the spirit of this movement, one finds the critics of Duhem frequently lacking in a basic understanding of Duhem's tenets, sometimes to the extent that one doubts a familiarity with the Duhemian text. One of the few papers which is designed to remedy this state of affairs is that of Philip Quinn entitled “What Duhem Really Meant.” Quinn is t…
Understanding scientists’ computational modeling decisions about climate risk management strategies using values-informed mental models
Feminist Perspectives on Science
In this issue of Hypatia there is a consensus that science is not value-neutral and that cultural/political concerns enter into the epistemology, methodology and conclusions of scientific theory and practice. In future dialogues the question that needs to be further addressed is the precise role political concerns should play in the formulation of a feminist theory and practice of science
Why Simpler Computer Simulation Models Can Be Epistemically Better for Informing Decisions
For computer simulation models to usefully inform climate risk management, uncertainties in model projections must be explored and characterized. Because doing so requires running the model many times over, and because computing resources are finite, uncertainty assessment is more feasible using models that demand less computer processor time. Such models are generally simpler in the sense of being more idealized, or less realistic. So modelers f…
The values of science: Empiricism from a feminist perspective
Quinn on Duhem: An Emendation
In recent years there has been a rebirth of interest in the philosophy of Pierre Duhem. Although I applaud the spirit of this movement, one finds the critics of Duhem frequently lacking in a basic understanding of Duhem's tenets, sometimes to the extent that one doubts a familiarity with the Duhemian text. One of the few papers which is designed to remedy this state of affairs is that of Philip Quinn entitled “What Duhem Really Meant.” Quinn is t…
Re-fusing nature/nurture
A Reply to Laura Purdy
This essay is a response to the comments and critique of Laura Purdy to my earlier paper “Re‐Fusing Nature/Nurture” (1983, 621–632). In it I re‐emphasize that the traditional nature/nurture dichotomy is based upon an unacceptable ontology and briefly note the type of metaphysic that would serve as a more appropriate basis
Re-Presenting the World: Feminism and the Natural Sciences
Nancy Tuana, Re-Presenting the World: Feminism and the Natural Sciences, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 8, No. 3, Tenth Anniversary Issue: The Women's Studies Movement: A Decade Inside the Academy (1986), pp. 73-75
The Weaker Seed. The Sexist Bias of Reproductive Theory
This history of reproductive theories from Aristotle to the preformationists provides an excellent illustration of the ways in which the gender /science system informs the process of scientific investigation. In this essay I examine the effects of the bias of woman's inferiority upon theories of human reproduction. I argue that the adherence to a belief in the inferiority of the female creative principle biased scientific perception of the nature…
Feminist Perspectives on Science
In this issue of Hypatia there is a consensus that science is not value-neutral and that cultural/political concerns enter into the epistemology, methodology and conclusions of scientific theory and practice. In future dialogues the question that needs to be further addressed is the precise role political concerns should play in the formulation of a feminist theory and practice of science
The Radical Future of Feminist Empiricism
I argue that Nelson's feminist transformation of empiricism provides the basis of a dialogue across three currently competing feminist epistemologies: feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint theories, and postmodern feminism, a dialogue that will result in a dissolution of the apparent tensions between these epistemologies and provide an epistemology with the openness and fluidity needed to embrace the concerns of feminists
The values of science: Empiricism from a feminist perspective
Fleshing Gender, Sexing the Body: Refiguring the Sex/Gender Distinction
Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays . Susan Haack
Revealing Male Bodies
Examines the phenomenology of male-gendered embodiment.
Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance
Lay understanding and scientific accounts of female sexuality and orgasm provide a fertile site for demonstrating the importance of including epistemologies of ignorance within feminist epistemologies. Ignorance is not a simple lack. It is often constructed, maintained, and disseminated and is linked to issues of cognitive authority, doubt, trust, silencing, and uncertainty. Studying both feminist and nonfeminist understandings of female orgasm r…
Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance
Lay understanding and scientific accounts of female sexuality and orgasm provide a fertile site for demonstrating the importance of including epistemologies of ignorance within feminist epistemologies. Ignorance is not a simple lack. It is often constructed, maintained, and disseminated and is linked to issues of cognitive authority, doubt, trust, silencing, and uncertainty. Studying both feminist and nonfeminist understandings of female orgasm r…
The Speculum of Ignorance: The Women's Health Movement and Epistemologies of Ignorance
This essay aims to clarify the value of developing systematic studies of ignorance as a component of any robust theory of knowledge. The author employs feminist efforts to recover and create knowledge of women's bodies in the contemporary women's health movement as a case study for cataloging different types of ignorance and shedding light on the nature of their production. She also helps us understand the ways resistance movements can be a helpf…
Introduction: Feminist Epistemologies of Ignorance
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The Speculum of Ignorance: The Women's Health Movement and Epistemologies of Ignorance
This essay aims to clarify the value of developing systematic studies of ignorance as a component of any robust theory of knowledge. The author employs feminist efforts to recover and create knowledge of women's bodies in the contemporary women's health movement as a case study for cataloging different types of ignorance and shedding light on the nature of their production. She also helps us understand the ways resistance movements can be a helpf…
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
Introduction: New Directions/Cities and Rivers: Interdisciplinary Studies in Knowledge Production
Human-Environment Interactions: A Plea for the Humanities
Research on human-environment interactions often neglects the resources of the humanities. Hurricane Katrina and the resulting levee breaches in New Orleans offer a case study on the need for inclusion of the humanities in the study of human-environment interactions, particularly the resources they provide in examining ethics and value concerns. Methods from the humanities, when developed in partnership with those from the sciences and social sci…
Introduction—New Directions/Cities and Rivers: Interdisciplinary Studies in Knowledge Production
Over the course of the last six years, New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy has taken a case-study approach to questions concerning the nature of knowledge production. Launched in 2001, New Directions promotes interdisciplinary collaborations where physical scientists, social scientists, and humanists work together with public science agencies, the private sector, and communities to deepen our understanding of and develop effective respons…
Interdisciplinary studies in science, technology, and society: “New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy”
Sexuality
This article traces public debates about sexual practices that have found their way into recent philosophical and other academic publications. It examines the ideals and standards some ethicists have proposed for guiding our sexual lives, even those lived away from the public spotlight. Many debates about sex concern sexual practices that transgress long-standing sexual mores, practices such as extramarital sex, same-sex sex, and paid sex. Debate…
Leading with ethics, aiming for policy: New opportunities for philosophy of science
Embedding philosophers in the practices of science: Bringing humanities to the sciences
Mapping a Research Agenda Concerning Gender and Climate Change: A Review of the Literature
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