Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of Epistemic Responsibility (1987), What Can She Know? (1991), Rhetorical Spaces (1995); editor of the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Feminist Theories (2000), and Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer (2003); and co-translator of Michèle Le Duff The Sex of Knowing (2003).

Professor Code provides a rich and sensitive epistemology, an erudite yet eminently readable account of how we know and ought to behave. Her insights, arguments, and examples break new ground in helping us understand the dangers of autonomy, the role of advocacy, and the wisdom of ecological thinking. Anyone in ethics, epistemology, or feminist philosophy must read her book.

• Introduction 1: Ecological Thinking: Subversions and Transformations 2: Ecological Naturalism 3: Negotiating Empiricism 4: Ecological Subjectivity in the Making: "The Child" as Fact and Artifact 5: Patterns of Autonomy, Acknowledgment, and Advocacy 6: Rational Imagining, Responsible Knowing 7: Public Knowledge, Public Trust: Toward Democratic Epistemic Practices Conclusion Bibliography Index

Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University in Toronto, Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of Epistemic Responsibility (1987), What Can She Know? (1991), Rhetorical Spaces (1995); editor of the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Feminist Theories (2000), and Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer (2003); and co-translator of Michèle Le Duff The Sex of Knowing (2003).

Professor Code provides a rich and sensitive epistemology, an erudite yet eminently readable account of how we know and ought to behave. Her insights, arguments, and examples break new ground in helping us understand the dangers of autonomy, the role of advocacy, and the wisdom of ecological thinking. Anyone in ethics, epistemology, or feminist philosophy must read her book.

• Introduction 1: Ecological Thinking: Subversions and Transformations 2: Ecological Naturalism 3: Negotiating Empiricism 4: Ecological Subjectivity in the Making: "The Child" as Fact and Artifact 5: Patterns of Autonomy, Acknowledgment, and Advocacy 6: Rational Imagining, Responsible Knowing 7: Public Knowledge, Public Trust: Toward Democratic Epistemic Practices Conclusion Bibliography Index