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Multiculturalism as a Cognitive Virtue of Scientific Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Ann E. Cudd
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Abstract

I argue that science will be better, by its own criteria, if it pursues multiculturalism, by which I mean an ethnic- and gender-diverse set of scientists. I argue that minority and women scientists will be more likely to recognize false, prejudiced assumptions about race and gender that infect theories. And the kinds of changes that society will undergo in pursuing multiculturalism will help reveal these faulty assumptions to scientists of all races and genders.

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Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multiculturalism and Postcolonial Challenges, Part 2 , Summer 1998 , pp. 43 - 61
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Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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