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Consequently, feminist standpoint can improve objectivity through determining what sort of empirical adequacy, explanatory power, or other virtues are relevant for a particular knowledge project and the degree to which each is relevant.
For Nelson, the distinction between good and bad science is still based on traditional constitutive or epistemic virtues including (though not limited to) empirical adequacy, explanatory power and predictive power.
She proposes that we think about objectivity as the degree to which these claims conform to some standard set of epistemic virtues such as: empirical adequacy, explanatory power, internal coherence, consistency with other established bodies of knowledge.
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In analyses of the life sciences feminists show how research in reproductive physiology has been structured by the attribution of stereotypically masculine traits to sperm (as active agents) and feminine traits to eggs (as passive), sometimes at considerable cost to empirical adequacy and explanatory power (Martin 1991; Spanier 1995).
The "explanation objection" does deny the explanatory adequacy of evolutionary theory; in particular, it denies the adequacy of evolutionary explanations of human choice-making, of human thought and behavior.
The goal, however, isn't just truth or correctness, but explanatory adequacy.
I believe there are remaining challenges to do with explanatory adequacy; and that this matters.
In non-exceptional cases, a failure to specify all four of causes, is, he maintains, a failure in explanatory adequacy.
According to Aristotle, when we have identified these four causes, we have satisfied a reasonable demand for explanatory adequacy.
Problem agendas consist of numerous component questions that stand in systematic relations and are tied to associated standards of explanatory adequacy.
Their genic level models depend for their empirical, causal, and explanatory adequacy on entire mathematical structures taken from the hierarchical models and refashioned.
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