Sandra G Harding 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.
13 Facts About Sandra Harding
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Sandra Harding received her undergraduate degree from Douglass College of Rutgers University in 1956.
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Sandra Harding then joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware, with a joint appointment to the Women's Studies Program.
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Sandra Harding was promoted to Associate Professor in 1979, and to full Professor in 1986.
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Sandra Harding held Visiting Professor appointments at the University of Amsterdam, University of Costa Rica, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok.
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Sandra Harding was invited to co-edit a chapter of UNESCO's World Science Report 1996 on "The Gender Dimension of Science and Technology".
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Sandra Harding served on the editorial boards of numerous journals in the fields of philosophy, women's studies, science studies, social research methodology, and African philosophy.
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Sandra Harding had lectured at more than 300 colleges, universities, and conferences in North America as well as in Central America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
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Sandra Harding developed the research standard of "strong objectivity," and contributed to the articulation of standpoint methodology.
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Sandra Harding has contributed to the development of feminist, anti-racist, multicultural, and postcolonial studies of the natural and social sciences, asking the extent to which paradigms like feminist empiricism are useful for promoting to goals of feminist inquiry.
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Sandra Harding was the author or editor of many books and essays on these topics and was one of the founders of the field of feminist epistemology.
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Sandra Harding was criticized by mathematicians Michael Sullivan, Mary Gray, and Lenore Blum, and by the historian of science Ann Hibner Koblitz.
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Sandra Harding's work was a main target of Paul Gross and Norman Levitt's Higher Superstition.