Abstract
AbstractFeminism and materialism offer disciplinary resources that would be more effective in cooperation than isolation. From a dynamic, interdisciplinary materialism, feminists gain an understanding of the physical forces that contribute to our beliefs and values. In contrast to accounts that reduce all of causation to the law-based interactions described by physics, feminist materialists posit agency as a capacity to transform material conditions in order to survive in a changing world. The recognition of action at multiple levels of explanation offers feminists a range of potential interventions in pursuit of social change. Likewise, materialists gain from feminism an array of epistemic and ethical tools for examining the obstacles to interdisciplinary collaboration and faulty assumptions that misdirect research. Feminism opens materialists to alternative methodologies and perspectives necessary to the investigation of the nature of the mind.
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Oxford University PressNew York
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