Deck 32: Eve Browning Cole: Philosophy and Feminist Criticism

Question 1

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-Cole says Lorraine Code contends that the dominant theories of knowledge from the Western philosophical tradition have focused on what she calls

A) a commodity of distrust.
B) solid scientific truth.
C) the unknowns.
D) a commodity of privilege.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-The kind of feminist who suggests that philosophy's shortcomings with regard to all the nonprivileged can be remedied by a more careful adherence to philosophy's stated mission is known as known as a

A) postmodernist.
B) feminist empiricist.
C) Marxist feminist.
D) standpoint theorist.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-According to some feminists, Aristotle was wrong about the number of teeth women have because

A) the empirical method of observation is worthless.
B) he rejected empiricism
C) he failed to consider women's opinion.
D) he failed to be a good enough empiricist.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-Those who advocate the construction of a feminist-standpoint epistemology argue that the feminist standpoint

A) has certain inherent epistemic advantages over male-centered epistemologies.
B) cannot be articulated.
C) has certain inherent epistemic disadvantages.
D) favors an androcentric science.

Question 5

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-Cole favors a kind of epistemic anarchism in which all claims, no matter how bizarre or contradictory, are equally valid.

Question 6

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-Cole is a scientific postmodernist.

Question 7

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-Feminist postmodern epistemologies are essentially uncritical.

Question 8

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-Some feminist philosophers express serious concerns about postmodernism as a viable basis for epistemology or for feminist politics in general.

Question 9

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-According to Cole, if gender identity is an entirely social construct, there would be a strong basis for feminist thinking.

Question 10

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-The prospects for a better philosophical understanding of human existence will not improve as larger numbers of women enter the domains in which "received knowledge" is processed.

Question 11

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-Philosophy's history has issued predominantly from the minds of privileged white males.

Question 12

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-Feminist-standpoint epistemologies seek to uncover and describe women's knowledge-making activities as these have originated in and been shaped by men's daily work and men's values.

Question 13

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-The feminist empiricist maintains that philosophers and scientists need to be told to "look again!"

Question 14

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-Feminist critics have shown strong skepticism regarding philosophers who have presumed to speak for "Reason itself."

Question 15

Eve Browning Cole is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Her areas of specialty include feminism, feminist theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. She is co-editor of Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice and Heart and Mind: Essays in Feminist Philosophy. She explains the recent feminist critiques of the dominant theories of knowledge and cautions against postmodernist views.
-All articulate women are feminists.