Non-Ideal Philosophy as Methodology
The Case of Feminist Philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10830496 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hilkje C Hänel (0000-0001-6782-1821, Assistant Professor, Potsdam University, Germany [email protected]), Johanna M Müller (0009-0004-3896-4830, Doctoral Student, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany [email protected]) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 172 |
| Pages | 32-59 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0495-4548 • E-ISSN: 2171-679X |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/th.2022.6917202 |
| OpenAlex | W4297513773 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article argues that non-ideal theory is distinctive in its use of a certain methodology which is prior to specific topics (such as injustice, oppression, etc.), grounded in the idea of socially situated knowledge, and able to address ideological situatedness. Drawing on standpoint epistemology, we show that one’s social position within given power structures has implications for knowledge acquisition and that being in a vulnerable or marginalised position can be advantageous to knowledge acquisition. Following ideology critique, we argue that both marginalised and powerful social positions are embedded within a given ideology. As ideology is more than a mere set of attitudes or beliefs that social agents endorse or resist, situated agents and theorists cannot develop normative criteria that are not themselves situated. Hence, non-ideal theory has to be equipped with methods that are likely to make this situatedness visible. We close by presenting some diverse methods that already do so
Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Ideology · Injustice · Normative · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Set (abstract data type · Situated · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
Toward a feminist theory of the state
Justice, gender, and the family
Knowledge, Human Interests, and Objectivity in Feminist Epistemology
Epistemic Exploitation
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
Science as Social Knowledge
The Fundamental Disagreement between Luck Egalitarians and Relational Egalitarians
What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?
Political Epistemology and Social Critique
The Wrong of Injustice
The Feminist Standpoint
Moral Demands in Nonideal Theory
Coming to Understand
The Feminist Standpoint
Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies
Rescuing Justice and Equality
Ideal vs. Non‐ideal Theory
Equality of Whom? Social Groups and Judgments of Injustice
Ideal Theory” as Ideology
Standpoint Theory as a Methodology for the Study of Power Relations
Coming to Understand
From Standpoint Epistemology to Epistemic Oppression
Have we got a theory for you! Feminist theory, cultural imperialism and the demand for ‘the woman's voice’
The Demandingness of Scanlon’s Contractualism
Feminism, Ethics, and the Question of Theory
Decolonizing Universalism
Visible identities
Ideal and Nonideal Theory
| Citations per year | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |