“Where are all of The Pragmatist Feminist Philosophers of Science?”

This chapter examines the communities within which our pragmatist feminist approaches to philosophy of science have been developed. This chapter, which is in many ways a conversation, begins by framing a series of commonalties among the work done by contemporary pragmatist feminist philosophers of science. It then traces these inclinations back to the model of practice developed in early American pragmatism by Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, and John Dewey. The chapter then sets forth future lines of inquiry that this history allows us to imagine. Clough and McHugh argue that by working within models of feminist pragmatism, feminist philosophers of science have been moved to use empirical, naturalized practices and knowledge claims from science to investigate inequitable distributions of power both inside and outside of the sciences. Furthermore, Clough and McHugh argue that pragmatist feminist inclinations challenge all of us to help build communities of knowers who are self-consciously and reflexively practicing engaged philosophy-in-the-world, aimed at the amelioration of injustice.