Syllabus
* Povinná:
GUBA, E. G., LINCOLN, Y.S. (eds.). „Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences.“ Pp. 163-188 in N.K., DENZIN, Y.S., LINCOLN. Handbook of qualitative research. London: SAGE Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-7619-1512-5.
MORROW, R. A. Critical theory and methodology. London: SAGE Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-8390-4682-1. Vybrané kapitoly.
ALCOFF, L., POTTER, E. (eds.). Feminist Epistemologies. New York: Routledgte, 1993. ISBN 0-415-90450-1. Vybrané kapitoly.
SAYER, A. Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach. New York: Routledge, 1992. ISBN 0-203-16360-5. Vybrané kapitoly.
TANESINI, A. An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1999. ISBN 0-631-20012-6.
* Doporučená:
HARDING, S. The Science Question in Feminism. London: Cornell University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-8014-1880-1.
LAKATOS, I., MUSGRAVE, A. (eds.). Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. ISBN 0-521-09623-5. Vybrané kapitoly.
HARDING, S., O’BARR, J. F. (eds.). Sex and Scientific Inquiry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. ISBN 0-226-31626-2. Vybrané kapitoly.
KUHN, T. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0226-45808-3.
Annotation
Annotace The course aim is to introduce students to methodology and methods used in feminist social-science research and to offer them an opportunity to critically reflect on dialog between traditional science and alternative paradigms, between mainstream science and feminist alternatives etc. Thematic areas
1. Why study epistemology? Feminist perspectives
2. Nature of Science
3. Knowledge in Context
4. Theory, observation and practical adequacy
5. Paradigms - assumptions and implications for research
6. Advantages and disadvantages of traditional division to quantitative and qualitative research
7. Gender and epistemology
8. Empiricist epistemology
9. Stand-point epistemology
10. Stand-point epistemology: rekonceptualization
11. Epistemic communities
12. Otherness as a challenge to epistemology
13. Feminist epistemology and natural sciences
14. Final reflections