I myself had actually been thinking about disability and epistemology
before I looked at a bookstore, but like Alexa find no
disability-epistemology related articles in feminism or
phenomenology. preceding feminist or phenomenological methods can't
just be "mapped" that is adopted - but not adapted to suit disability
needs, I take a more careful examination is needed.
The only work that might be useful that I find was the hermeutical
work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and his ideas of "Situatedness" and
"Horizon" in Truth and Method, a book that was originally meant for
aesthetics but has find its way into social sciences and philosophy.
For Gadamer we are all context bound by our "situationess" - that is
what we are and when we are it e.g I am a Philosophy student,
disabled, male, living in Britain in 1999. That is my Situation. I
only have a certain view a, certain "Horizon" because I am bound by
my situation by talking with others I could "fuse horizons" and
perhaps have a wider undertsanding/interpretation or the world - have
multiple networks of horizons.
This idea, very badly sketched out here could be applied to the
disability sitution but may not be very impressive. I would be very
interesting in Alison Cocks' work and the views of others.
Forgive the long e-mail.
Michael
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