Open AccessThe Politics of Epistemology
Author(s) -
Cassandra Reed
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
stance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-1899
pISSN - 1943-1880
DOI - 10.33043/s.1.1.50-55
Subject(s) - oppression , loyalty , metaphysics , perspective (graphical) , conceptual schema , epistemology , politics , sociology , conceptual framework , social psychology , psychology , gender studies , political science , philosophy , computer science , law , artificial intelligence , gender schema theory
This paper focuses on the metaphysical and conceptual structures of reality organization that exist currently in western culture. Taking a feminist perspective, this paper analyzes how some disfavored social groups actively have their identities manipulated and sometimes conceptually erased from the dominant conceptual scheme. Utilizing this analysis, it is concluded that this conceptual scheme perpetuates oppression; therefore, maintained loyalty to it is incompatible with the belief that all people should be treated as full persons.