ABSTRACT
This chapter offers more details about what is meant by the claim that knowers like us are interdependent. This chapter argues that knowers like us should be conceived of as deeply and ineliminably involved with and dependent on other knowers for inquiry. To explain this, this chapter makes use of certain concepts from feminist ethics and epistemology generally and care ethics in particular. This chapter draws analogies from some of these concepts to new tools that will be central for a care-based epistemology. For example, this chapter introduces and makes use of the concept of epistemic reproduction. This chapter closes with a definition and discussion of the technical notion of a community of inquiry that will be in play for the rest of the book.
