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Lynn Hankinson-NelsonLynn Hankinson-Nelson

Professor
Ph.D., 1987, Temple University

lynnhank@u.washington.edu
Condon 504
(206) 543-5094


Lynn Hankinson Nelson is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. She received her B.A. from Rutgers University in 1980 and her doctorate from Temple University in 1987. Her areas of expertise are feminist epistemology, feminist philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology and the social sciences.


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Recent Publications

Books

  • On Quine (with Jack Nelson). Wadsworth, 2000 (monograph).
  • Who Knows: From Quine to Feminist Empiricism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

Edited Collections

  • Co-editor (with Jack Nelson), Feminist Interpretations of W.V. Quine, Penn State Press, 2003.
  • Co-editor (with Jack Nelson), Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 1996.
  • Co-editor (with Alison Wylie), Synthese 104 (3) (Sept. 1995): Special Issue on Feminism and Science.

Articles

  • (With Jack Nelson) "Logic from a Quinean Perspective: An Empirical Enterprise." In Representing Reason, eds. M. Haas and R.J. Falmagne (Roman & Littlefield, in press).
  • "Relativism and Feminist Science Scholarship." In Engendering Rationalities, eds. S. Morgen and N. Tuana (SUNY, 2001).
  • "Feminist Philosophy of Science." In The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Science, eds. P. Machamer and M. Silberstein (Blackwell, 2001).
  • "Empiricism." In Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy, eds. A. Jaggar and I. Young (Blackwell, 1998).
  • "Empiricism without Dogmas." In Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, eds. L. H. Nelson and J. Nelson (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996).
  • "Feminist Naturalized Philosophy of Science," Synthese 104 (3) (Fall 1995). To be reprinted with revisions in Feminist Interpretations of Quine, ed. L. H. Neslon and J. Nelson (Penn State, 2002).
  • "Feminist Values and Cognitive Virtures," PSA II (Summer 1995) (with Jack Nelson).
  • "The Very Idea of Feminist Epistemology," Hypatia 10 (3), (Summer 1995). Reprinted with revisions in Is Feminist Philosophy Philosophy?, ed. E. Bianchi (Northwestern, 1999).
  • "No Rush to Judgement," Monist 77 (October 1994) (with Jack Nelson).
  • "Epistemological Communities." In Feminist Epistemologies, eds. L. Alcoff and E. Potter. New York and London: Routledge, 1993. Reprinted in Gender of Science, ed. J. Kourany. Prentice Hall, 2001.
  • "A Question of Evidence," Hypatia 8 (2), (April 1993). To be reprinted in Siblings Under the Skin: Feminism Social Justice and Analytic Philosophy, ed. S. Clough (The Davies Group, 2002).
  • "Who Knows? What Can They Know? And When?" Reason Papers 18 (1993). Reprinted with revisions in Women, Knowledge, and Reality, Second Edition, eds. A. Garry and M. Pearsall (Routledge 1996).

Reviews

  • "Feminist Epistemology As and In Practice," APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 99 (2), 1999.
  • Critical Notice, Lorraine Code's What Can She Know?, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 24, 2 (June 1994).


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