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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Epistemic Responsibility, Now -- The Myth of "The Individual" -- Culpable Ignorance? -- Chapter 2 Doubt and Denial: Epistemic Responsibility Meets Climate Change Skepticism -- "Manufactured Uncertainty"-Merchants of Doubt -- Epistemic Identity and Situation -- Chapter 3 Care, Concern, and Advocacy: Is There a Place for Epistemic Responsibility? -- Very Vulnerable Bodies -- Advocacy and/or Objectivity? -- Conclusion: Knowledge as Collective/Collaborative Practice -- Chapter 4 Particularity, Epistemic Responsibility, and the Ecological Imaginary -- Epistemology and the Social Imaginary -- Chapter 5 How to Think Globally, Revisited: Or, A Plea for Ignorance -- Hermeneutic Humility -- Strategic Ignorance -- Intellectual Virtue -- Epistemic Responsibility and Virtuous Knowing Today -- Bibliography -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE. Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant? -- CHAPTER TWO. Knowledge and Subjectivity -- CHAPTER THREE. Second Persons -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Autonomy of Reason -- CHAPTER FIVE. Women and Experts: The Power of Ideology -- CHAPTER SIX. Credibility: A Double Standard -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Remapping the Epistemic Terrain -- CHAPTER EIGHT. A Feminist Epistemology? -- Bibliography -- Index

The arguments in this book are informed at once by the moral-political implications of how knowledge is produced and circulated and by issues of gendered subjectivity. In their critical dimension, these lucid essays engage with the incapacity of the philosophical mainstream's dominant epistemologies to offer regulative principles that guide people in the epistemic projects that figure centrally in their lives. In its constructive dimension, Rhetorical Spaces focuses on developing productive, case-by-case anal

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Ecological Thinking: Subversions and Transformations -- 2 Ecological Naturalism -- 3 Negotiating Empiricism -- 4 Ecological Subjectivity in the Making: "The Child as Fact and Artifact -- 5 Patterns of Autonomy, Acknowledgment, and Advocacy -- 6 Rational Imagining, Responsible Knowing -- 7 Public Knowledge, Public Trust: Toward Democratic Epistemic Practices -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in Rachel Carson's scientific practice, this book presents the creative restructuring resources of ecology for a theory of knowledge. It critiques the instrumental rationality, abstract individualism and exploitation of people and places legitimated by western epistemologies