ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces some key issues in the feminist philosophy of science and attempts to increase our understanding of what a body of research based on feminist philosophy would look like.
Those of us committed to generating knowledge supportive of and consistent with emancipatory communities often find ourselves in a quandary; deeply skeptical of any claim to ‘authoritative’ knowledge, we often lapse into various forms of relativism. Not wanting to claim too much for our research, we claim too little. While it is important not to overgeneralise the relevance of our work for fear of its colonialist potential, we tend to implicitly accept a view that marginalises our work by leaving it either at a descriptive level or by believing its implications are limited to the context in which the study was actually conducted.
