Much has changed during the almost 35 years that I’ve been involved with women’s studies. The demographics and views of the students, the growth from a few undergraduate courses scattered in a handful of institutions to hundreds of programs, including some with Ph.D. degrees, the expansion of research and plethora of texts, and increased emphasis upon diversity and international perspectives typify some of the changes. Despite the significant growth and changes, writing this essay made me remember that the two major issues that initially drew me decades ago to women’s studies still remain: (1) women having knowledge and control over their own bodies and (2) building two-way streets between women’s studies and science to get more women and feminist perspectives into science and technology and more science and technology into women’s studies. Although the ways we frame them and some of the vocabulary we use to discuss them may differ today, the fundamental issues remain.

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

Women’s Studies, Health, and Science: Evolution from Separation to the Beginnings of Integration

La influencia de los enemigos de la ciencia en la preparatoria the influence of the enemies of science on preparatory students

The title of this chapter alludes, of course, to a famous article by Imre Lakatos, “History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions.” It is also meant to invoke the title of another celebrated article, itself teasingly resonating with Lakatos’s, by Steven Shapin, “History of Science and Its Sociological Reconstructions” (Shapin 1982). Both Lakatos and Shapin wanted to talk about how best to do the history of science, but my own intention is not to tell people how to do the philosophy of science. However, I do value the disciplinary intersection of “history and philosophy of science” (HPS); consequently, my subject is what I think HPS used to be about, and what it could still offer us.

Philosophy of Science and Its Historical Reconstructions

The current theoretical crisis in Archaeology is caused by the conflict that exists between the philosophical systems of both archeological approaches processualism and postprocessualism. In this paper is proposed a participatory and transdisciplinary construction of the Archaeological knowledge in order to establish the foundations of an alternative theoretical paradigm.

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PAlAbrAs clAve: Procesualismo, Postprocesualismo, Transdisciplinar, Realismo científico, Relativismo, Arqueosofía.

This paper aims to theorize the constructionist dimension of teaching philosophy, especially for social, political and legal faculties. The constructionist approach includes an epistemic dimension and a pragmatic emphasis on the interdependence between knowledge and action in the social areas. Appreciative approach to philosophy is based on the work of David Cooperrider on "Appreciative Inquiry," which is a form of pragmatic discourse that substitutes the focus on the problem with the emphasing on successful elements of previous experience of individuals, groups, organizations or communities. Appreciative pedagogy principles aim the "partnership" between the teachers and students. This experience can be integrated in the philosophical discourse starts from Plato's dialogues and maieutic method promoted by Socrate. Hermeneutic of the real seen as a philosophical reflection on the daily positive experiences falls into tradition of philosophical search of the ultimate meaning reality. The appreciative speech starts from a postmodern view by a constructivist and constructionist approach, by what the reality itself is a social construction generated by successive negotiations on accepted interpretations.

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

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Women’s Studies, Health, and Science: Evolution from Separation to the Beginnings of Integration

La influencia de los enemigos de la ciencia en la preparatoria the influence of the enemies of science on preparatory students

Philosophy of Science and Its Historical Reconstructions

PAlAbrAs clAve: Procesualismo, Postprocesualismo, Transdisciplinar, Realismo científico, Relativismo, Arqueosofía.

Appreciative Approach of Philosophy: Towards a New Approach of Philosophical Discourse in the Education Area

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