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Revelations offered by art when viewed or reflected on from a distance in space or time.

This book presents the feminist critique of science and the philosophy of science in such a way that students of philosophy of science, philosophers, feminist theorists, and scientists will find the material accessible and intellectually rigorous.

Drawing on core concepts in feminist philosophy, this book investigates five major issues from a feminist point of view: immigration, environmental preservation, intervention in medical areas, the peace movement, and matters of citizenship.

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Jane Duran's poems explore that transforming, constantly shifting overlap in what we remember and what we experience now. Themes of losing and finding, releasing and holding run through the whole collection, from poems about the last years of her mother's life to a sequence celebrating her son and motherhood.

Recent work on the Platonic notion of the Guardian has focused on the female Guardian, or "Philosopher Queen, " but mainly insofar as the idea is problematic. Okin, Saxonhouse, and others have tried to be more precise about the concepts involved--this work aims to use actual publications by British and continentally-trained women aristocrats of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to fill in the lacunae. It is concluded that these women wer...

This text is a long needed, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures. It will prove an enormously useful resource for scholars in women's studies, philosophy, anthropology, and religious studies.

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This book articulates philosophical concerns in the work of five well known twentieth century women writers, including writers of color. Duran traces the development of philosophical themes - ontological, ethical and feminist - in the writings of Margaret Drabble, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvior, Toni Cade Bambara and Elena Poniatowska presenting both a general overview of the author's work with an emphasis on traditional philosophical ques...

The first volume to explore comprehensively the intersection of feminism, politics and philosophy, Women in Political Theory sheds light on the contributions of women philosophers and theorists to contemporary political thought. With close attention to the work of five central thinkers, including Sarah Grimké, Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams, Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt, this book not only offers sustained analyses of the thought of these ...

Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures.

This book articulates philosophical concerns in the work of five well known twentieth century women writers, including writers of color. Duran traces the development of philosophical themes - ontological, ethical and feminist - in the writings of Margaret Drabble, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvior, Toni Cade Bambara and Elena Poniatowska presenting both a general overview of the author's work with an emphasis on traditional philosophical ques...

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A unique examination of women philosophers in the Western tradition, from the medieval period to the twentieth century

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Jane Duran's [book] represents a pioneering attempt to integrate epistemology and social science....[She] makes a persuasive and highly interesting case for broadening the scope of epistemology to include sociolinguistics.'-James Maffie, California State University, Northridge

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This author explores the intersection between cognitive science, as exemplified by the computational model of mind, and epistemologyó specifically, epistemic justification theory. Her analysis leads to the conclusion that some very specific and somewhat technical issues in epistemic justification theory can be at least partially resolved, if not entirely cleared up, by the use of the computational model. The third and fourth chapters of this w...