作者伊夫林·凯勒 Evelyn Fox Keller

作者 (1936年)

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　　伊夫林·福克斯·凯勒的科学哲学是源于女性主义者意识到科学的历史一直是以男性为中心的历史,男性无论在数量还是质量上都占绝对压倒优势.在对科学的男性化进行批评时,她通过对科学内部隐喻的批判性分析,揭示了"科学与性别"问题,提出了"动态客观性"问题,试图在实在论与相对主义之间寻求一条"中间道路",指出科学既非"自然之镜"亦非"文化之镜",而是自然与文化相互作用关系的反映.这些既反映了凯勒对科学哲学的贡献,也反映了她对科学的反思有待进一步增强辩证性.

　　Evelyn Fox Keller (born 1936) is an American physicist, author and feminist. She is currently a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller has also taught at the State University of New York at Purchase, New York University and in the department of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.
　　Keller received her B.A. in physics from Brandeis University in 1957 and continued her studies in theoretical physics at Harvard University graduating with a Ph.D. in 1963. She became interested in molecular biology during a visit to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory while completing her Ph.D. dissertation. Her subsequent research has focused on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science.
　　She is also on the advisory board of FFIPP-USA (Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace-USA), a network of Palestinian, Israeli, and International faculty, and students, working in for an end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and just peace.
　　
　　Published work
　　
　　A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. Freeman, 1983.
　　Reflections on Gender and Science. Yale University Press, 1985.
　　Three cultures : fifteen lectures on the confrontation of academic cultures, The Hague : Univ. Pers Rotterdam, 1989.
　　Secrets of Life/Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender and Science. Routledge, 1992.
　　Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-century Biology. The Wellek Library Lecture Series at the University of California, Irvine. Columbia University Press, 1995.
　　Keywords in Evolutionary Biology (co-edited with Elisabeth Lloyd). Harvard University Press, 1992 (reprinted 1998 ISBN 0674503139).
　　The Century of the Gene. Harvard University Press, 2000.
　　Making Sense of Life : Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines. Harvard University Press, 2002.

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