Science ,Technology and Society

Overall, Sandra Harding looks for a wider horizon that can accommodate both enlightenment needs and postmodern concerns in the interest of acting out a set of pedagogical values as well. She writes: “These projects are incomplete –we have not yet figured out how to escape such limitations. Most likely, we are not yet in an historical era when such vision should be possible She argues that feminism, as well as science, contain both regressive and progressive tendencies and that ways are needed to advance the progressive sides and inhibit the regressive natures of science and feminism”.

Harding uses various interpretations of Thomas Kuhn's ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolution (1970') and Quine's under determination thesis. She says that feminists would improve science posing epistemological challenges to a particular way of doing science. What could be the epistemological challenges?

If we understand by epistemology of science to be concerned with questions about the nature of evidence for or against scientific belief ,with critical assessment of the presuppositions and arguments of rival theories of scientific knowledge ,by usung better methods ,by discovering new problems, by resolving existing problems etc., such epistemological challenges are welcome for improving science and technology study.