Feminist Criticisms of Metaphors in Bacon's Philosophy of Science

Philosophy

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-61

  Landau, Iddo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 33750143581     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031819197000090     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Sandra Harding, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991), p. 43.
2. Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (San Francisco: Harper, 1980), p. 168.
3. Evelyn Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985), p. 35.
4. See, e.g., Erica Harth, Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), p. 7 n. 13; Kathleen Okruhlik, ‘Birth of a New Physics or Death of Nature?', in Elizabeth D. Harvey and Kathleen Okruhlik (eds), Women and Reason (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1992), pp. 64–65; Iris Marion Young, Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), p. 48 n. 28; Susan R. Bordo, The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture (Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1987) pp. 107–108, n. 5; Ruth Perry, ‘Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women', Eighteenth Century Studies 18 (1985): 473–74, n. 5, 6.
5. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath (eds), The Works of Francis Bacon, 14 vols. (London: Longman, 1857–1874; facsimile edition by Fromann Verlag, Stuttgart, 1962), vol. IV p. 295. All further references to Bacon are from this edition.
6. It should also be noted that in England, unlike Scotland or the Continent, torturing witches was prohibited. See, e.g., Brian P. Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (New York: Longman, 1987), pp. 76, 77, 88.
7. Sandra Harding, The Science Question in Feminism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986), p. 116.
8. Harding, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (see n. 1), p. 43.
9. Harding here follows Merchant, The Death of Nature (see n. 2), p. 165.
10. Odyssey iv, 382–570.
11. Fox Keller, Reflections on Gender and Science (see n. 3), p. 36.
12. Harding, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (1991), pp. 44–45.
13. Max Black, ‘ Metaphor', in Models and Metaphors: Studies in Language and Philosophy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1962), pp. 25–47; ‘More on Metaphor', in Andrew Ortony (ed.), Metaphor and Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1979), pp. 19–43.
14. Mary B. Hesse, Models and Analogies in Science (University of Notre Dame Press, 1966).
15. Susan Haack, ‘ Surprising Noises: Rorty and Hesse on Metaphor', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 88 (1987-1988): 299.
16. Israel Scheffler, ‘ Ten Myths of Metaphor', Communication and Cognition 19 (1986): 390.
17. Black, ‘ Metaphor', p. 46 ; Black's emphasis.
18. Black, ‘ Metaphor', p. 38; ‘More About Metaphor', p. 29.
19. Hesse, Models and Analogies in Science, 74.
20. Margarita Levin, ‘ Caring New World: Feminism and Science', The American Scholar 57, (1988): 102.
21. Margarita Levin, personal communication, June 7, 1996.