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Acknowledging a standpoint can clarify the scope and responsibility of a claim without making it immune to criticism.
Try the short introduction first, or bring equivalent reading experience. Obtain the specified text before beginning the longer reading.
Annotate a scientific account with its instruments, standpoint, exclusions and testable claims.
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Introduces the question and vocabulary used in the longer selected reading.
Donna Haraway · book
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.
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Find a copySimians, cyborgs, and women. Situated knowledge, technoscience and relations among species. Ask where a knowledge claim is made, what it can see and what responsibilities it carries.
Answer this question in your own words: Can a claim be situated and still answerable to evidence?
Name the claim, then explain why a reader might accept it.
Acknowledging a standpoint can clarify the scope and responsibility of a claim without making it immune to criticism.
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Common mistake: Summarising a biography instead of explaining the argument.
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Donna Haraway · book
Locate two passages about “Can a claim be situated and still answerable to evidence” using the contents or index. Record their chapter/section names in your notes; this route assigns selections, not the whole work.
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Find a copySimians, cyborgs, and women. Situated knowledge, technoscience and relations among species. Ask where a knowledge claim is made, what it can see and what responsibilities it carries.
What would make your activity a convincing example?
Annotate a scientific account with its instruments, standpoint, exclusions and testable claims.
A useful response carries out the task: Annotate a scientific account with its instruments, standpoint, exclusions and testable claims. It records the observation or passage used and explains how it bears on the question.
What to look for
Common mistake: Presenting an opinion without showing the example it rests on.
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What is one conclusion this reading does not establish?
Test the boundary: Situated knowledge does not mean that any assertion is as good as any other.
Situated knowledge does not mean that any assertion is as good as any other.
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Common mistake: Treating a useful interpretation as an unrestricted fact.
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Background, different viewpoints, and further reading.
Situated knowledge, technoscience and relations among species. Ask where a knowledge claim is made, what it can see and what responsibilities it carries.
Introduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.