Carla Fehr
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carla Fehr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carla |
| FAMILY NAME | Fehr |
| SIGNATURE | FEHR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4533-1589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Culture, exploitation, and epistemic approaches to diversity
The Free Exercise of Self-Love”
This article uses the writings of The Economist on Ireland during the potato famine as a means to explore ideas about liberal political economy in nineteenth-century Britain. The article argues that Ireland presented such an extreme case that contemporary writing about it allows readers to see the assumptions that lay behind ideas of liberal political economy in relation to land, government involvement in the economy, and peasant proprietorship
Feminist Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology
In this paper, I ask feminist philosophers and science studies scholars to consider the goals of developing critical analyses of evolutionary psychology. These goals can include development of scholarship in feminist philosophy and science studies, mediation of the uptake of evolutionary psychology by other academic and lay communities, and improvement of the practices and products of evolutionary psychology itself. I evaluate ways that some prac…
Socially relevant philosophy of science
Feminism and Science
During the scientific revolution reductionism and mechanism were introduced together. These concepts remained intertwined through much of the ensuing history of philosophy and science, resulting in the privileging of approaches to research that focus on the smallest bits of nature. This combination of concepts has been the object of intense feminist criticism, as it encourages biological determinism, narrows researchers' choices of problems and m…
Pluralism and Sex
The evolution of sexual reproduction is a case of explanatory pluralism, meaning that there is more than one explanation for this phenomenon. I use the concept of a domain to more clearly explicate the various explananda that can be found in this case. I argue that although pluralism with respect to some types of domains can be decreased using van Fraassen's pragmatics of explanation, there remains an important class of domain, an orthogonal doma…
Socially relevant philosophy of science
Feminist Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology
In this paper, I ask feminist philosophers and science studies scholars to consider the goals of developing critical analyses of evolutionary psychology. These goals can include development of scholarship in feminist philosophy and science studies, mediation of the uptake of evolutionary psychology by other academic and lay communities, and improvement of the practices and products of evolutionary psychology itself. I evaluate ways that some prac…
Culture, exploitation, and epistemic approaches to diversity
The Free Exercise of Self-Love”
This article uses the writings of The Economist on Ireland during the potato famine as a means to explore ideas about liberal political economy in nineteenth-century Britain. The article argues that Ireland presented such an extreme case that contemporary writing about it allows readers to see the assumptions that lay behind ideas of liberal political economy in relation to land, government involvement in the economy, and peasant proprietorship
Pluralism and Sex
The evolution of sexual reproduction is a case of explanatory pluralism, meaning that there is more than one explanation for this phenomenon. I use the concept of a domain to more clearly explicate the various explananda that can be found in this case. I argue that although pluralism with respect to some types of domains can be decreased using van Fraassen's pragmatics of explanation, there remains an important class of domain, an orthogonal doma…
Feminism and Science
During the scientific revolution reductionism and mechanism were introduced together. These concepts remained intertwined through much of the ensuing history of philosophy and science, resulting in the privileging of approaches to research that focus on the smallest bits of nature. This combination of concepts has been the object of intense feminist criticism, as it encourages biological determinism, narrows researchers' choices of problems and m…
Socially relevant philosophy of science
Feminist Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology
In this paper, I ask feminist philosophers and science studies scholars to consider the goals of developing critical analyses of evolutionary psychology. These goals can include development of scholarship in feminist philosophy and science studies, mediation of the uptake of evolutionary psychology by other academic and lay communities, and improvement of the practices and products of evolutionary psychology itself. I evaluate ways that some prac…
The Free Exercise of Self-Love”
This article uses the writings of The Economist on Ireland during the potato famine as a means to explore ideas about liberal political economy in nineteenth-century Britain. The article argues that Ireland presented such an extreme case that contemporary writing about it allows readers to see the assumptions that lay behind ideas of liberal political economy in relation to land, government involvement in the economy, and peasant proprietorship
Culture, exploitation, and epistemic approaches to diversity
Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)