Philosopher

Sandra Harding

Overview

Sandra G. Harding (March 29, 1935 – March 5, 2025) was an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology, and philosophy of science, who directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women from 1996 to 2000, and co-edited Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 2000 to 2005. Until her death, she was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education and Gender Studies at UCLA and a Distinguished Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. In 2013, she was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

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Philosophers who discussed Sandra Harding

• Feminism
• Donna Haraway

Ideas Sandra Harding discusses

• Francis Bacon
• Feminist epistemology
• UNESCO
• Social science
• Scientific method
• Philosophy of science
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Feminist philosophy
• University of Amsterdam
• Epistemology
• Norman Levitt
• Science wars

Place in the tradition

Part of Essentialism.

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