After Mr. Nowhere: What Kind of Proper Self for a Scientist?

Sandra Harding
2015 Feminist Philosophy Quarterly  
The conventional proper scientific self has an ethical obligation to strive to see everywhere in the universe from no particular location in that universe: he is to produce the view from nowhere. What different conceptions of the proper scientific self are created by the distinctive assumptions and research practices of social justice movements, such as feminism, anti-racism, and post-colonialism? Three such new ideals are: the multiple and conflicted knowing self; the researcher strategically
more » ... ocated inside her research world; and the community that knows.
doi:10.5206/fpq/2015.1.2 fatcat:6e3uxjbt55flfagjimxkaameiq