Criticism, Context and Community: Connections between Wittgenstein's On Certainty and Feminist Epistemology

I explore the conceptual connections between
Wittgenstein's On Certainty and the work of three
contemporary feminist epistemologists: standpoint theorist
Sandra Harding and feminist empiricists Helen Longino
and Lynn Hankinson Nelson. My inquiry reveals both
surprising similarities and important differences between
Wittgensteinian and feminist epistemologies. Exploring
these similarities and differences clarifies Wittgenstein's
epistemology and reveals ways feminist epistemologists
have developed themes from On Certainty.
On Certainty anticipates three important pillars of
feminist epistemology: criticism, context, and community.