Sandra G. Harding was an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology and philosophy of science, born in 1935 and died in 2025. She directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women from 1996 to 2000 and co-edited the journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 2000 to 2005, and at her death was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education and Gender Studies at UCLA and a Distinguished Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. In 2013 she received the John Desmond Bernal Prize from the Society for the Social Studies of Science.
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Sandra G. Harding (March 29, 1935 – March 5, 2025) was an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology, and philosophy of science, who directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women from 1996 to 2000, and co-edited Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 2000 to 2005.
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Sandra G. Harding (March 29, 1935 - March 5, 2025) was an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology, and philosophy of science, who directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women from 1996 to 2000, and co-edited Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 2000 to 2005.
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Harding developed the research standard of "strong objectivity," and contributed to the articulation of standpoint methodology.
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The Science Question in Feminism, 1986.
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Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives, 1991.
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In 2013, she was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). == Education and career == Sandra Harding received her undergraduate degree from Douglass College of Rutgers University in 1956.
Associated With: University of Amsterdam, Article text
Harding held Visiting Professor appointments at the University of Amsterdam (1987), University of Costa Rica (1990), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) (1993), and the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (1994).
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