ABSTRACT
The notion that there are “feminist approaches” to science appears in Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, edited by Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson. According to Nelson and Nelson (1996), a feminist approach promised important contributions to traditional philosophy of science. As they expressed it:
We take philosophers of science and scientists, feminists and non-feminists alike, to share an interest in the nature of objectivity, truth, evidence, cognitive agency, scientific method, and the relationship between science and values. (1996: ix)
But, the Nelsons pointed as well to a difference between traditional philosophy of science and a feminist approach.
