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Making the Case brings together established and emerging philosophers who use case studies to address a variety of contemporary social justice causes. The contributors show both the depth and breadth of work in this area and highlight the distinctive approaches that feminist and critical race theorists, in particular, have pursued. For these theorists, the choice of the kinds of cases analyzed matters, not only pushing philosophy as a field to foreground the challenges facing marginalized groups but also affecting the kind of philosophy that results. This ensures that their theories do not reproduce the conceptual frameworks of dominant groups. By using thickly described cases, as opposed to the thinly described or hypothetical situations that have been the historic mainstay of philosophy, the contributors strive to create philosophy that never strays too far from the complexities of people's lives on the ground. The book provides philosophers with a host of methodologies, theories, and practical examples for use in social justice case work, with topics ranging from census design and gender bias in science to incarceration and the spate of recent police killings of black men and women.
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Heidi Grasswick and Nancy Arden McHugh

Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives on Case Studies

1. Building a Case for Social Justice: Situated Case Studies in Nonideal Social Theory
Corwin Aragon

2. The Coupled Ethical-Epistemic Model as a Resource for Feminist Philosophy of Science, and a Case Study Applying the Model to the Demography of Hispanic Identity
Sean A. Valles

3. Feminist Science Studies: Reasoning from Cases
Sharon Crasnow

Part II: Critiquing the Practice: The Case of Philosophy

4. The Power and Perils of Example: "Literizing Is Not Theorizing"
Lorraine Code

5. What Philosophy Does (Not) Know
Gaile Pohlhaus Jr.

6. Doing Things with Case Studies
Carla Fehr

Part III: Case Studies for Social Justice

7. Singing the "Blues" for Black Male Bodies: Epistemic Violence, Non-alterity, and Black-Male Killings
ShaDawn Battle

8. Land(point) Epistemologies: Theorizing the Place of Epistemic Domination
Esme G. Murdock

9. Epistemology and HIV Transmission: Privilege and Marginalization in the Dissemination of Knowledge
Lacey J. Davidson and Mark Satta

10. Mestizaje as an Epistemology of Ignorance: The Case of the Mexican Genome Diversity Project
Sergio Armando Gallegos-Ordorica

11. Epistemic Activism and the Politics of Credibility: Testimonial Injustice Inside/Outside a North Carolina Jail
José Medina and Matt S. Whitt

Contributors
Index

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Date de parution	01 avril 2021
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MAKING THE CASE
MAKING THE CASE
FEMINIST AND CRITICAL RACE PHILOSOPHERS ENGAGE CASE STUDIES
EDITED BY
HEIDI GRASSWICK AND NANCY ARDEN McHUGH
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Grasswick, Heidi Elizabeth, 1965– editor. | McHugh, Nancy Arden, editor.
Title: Making the case : feminist and critical race philosophers engage case studies / edited by Heidi Grasswick and Nancy Arden McHugh.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020023773 | ISBN 9781438482378 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438482392 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Social justice—Case studies. | Feminist theory. | Racism.
Classification: LCC HM671 .M346 2021 | DDC 303.3/72—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020023773
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Heidi Grasswick and Nancy Arden McHugh
PART 1
THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CASE STUDIES
Chapter 1 Building a Case for Social Justice: Situated Case Studies in Nonideal Social Theory
Corwin Aragon
Chapter 2 The Coupled Ethical-Epistemic Model as a Resource for Feminist Philosophy of Science, and a Case Study Applying the Model to the Demography of Hispanic Identity
Sean A. Valles
Chapter 3 Feminist Science Studies: Reasoning from Cases
Sharon Crasnow
PART 2
CRITIQUING THE PRACTICE: THE CASE OF PHILOSOPHY
Chapter 4 The Power and Perils of Example: “Literizing Is Not Theorizing”
Lorraine Code
Chapter 5 What Philosophy Does (Not) Know
Gaile Pohlhaus Jr.
Chapter 6 Doing Things with Case Studies
Carla Fehr
PART 3
CASE STUDIES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Chapter 7 Singing the “Blues” for Black Male Bodies: Epistemic Violence, Non-alterity, and Black-Male Killings
ShaDawn Battle
Chapter 8 Land(point) Epistemologies: Theorizing the Place of Epistemic Domination
Esme G. Murdock
Chapter 9 Epistemology and HIV Transmission: Privilege and Marginalization in the Dissemination of Knowledge
Lacey J. Davidson and Mark Satta
Chapter 10 Mestizaje as an Epistemology of Ignorance: The Case of the Mexican Genome Diversity Project
Sergio Armando Gallegos-Ordorica
Chapter 11 Epistemic Activism and the Politics of Credibility: Testimonial Injustice Inside/Outside a North Carolina Jail
José Medina and Matt S. Whitt
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Many people have helped make this volume possible. Much of the early impetus for our thinking about the value of in-depth casework for feminist and critical race philosophers came from our involvement in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Feminist Epistemologies, organized by Nancy Tuana and Shannon Sullivan in 2003. The two of us met there and started collaborating in a range of ways at that seminar. Many of the conversations that took place there and the longstanding relationships forged among the participants have been crucial to each of us and our ongoing commitment to the development of philosophical tools to support social-justice work. Another important locus of inspiration has been the community of FEMMSS (Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies). This organization has provided continual support, critique, and engagement that has made today’s versions of case-engaged philosophical work viable and strong. This volume also benefitted from having a series of papers presented PechaKucha-style at the 2016 SRPoiSE (Consortium for Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering) that was a collaboration with the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. This venue tested several of the papers in their early stages and allowed for conversation between presenters themselves and between presenters and the audience.
We appreciate the time, energy, and patience of all of the contributors as this volume developed, and we are grateful for their willingness to share their ideas on an underexplored yet critical topic in philosophy.
We also want to acknowledge the support of our families throughout this project. Without them (both humans and animals) we would not be the philosophers and teachers we are today, nor would we have the energy and strength to see lengthy academic projects such as this one through to their completion.
Introduction
H EIDI G RASSWICK AND N ANCY A RDEN McH UGH
The Use of Cases and Case Studies: Philosophy and the Contributions of Feminist and Critical Race Philosophy
What it means to use cases and case studies in one’s scholarship and research varies tremendously across fields. Case histories in medicine focus on the course of disease, diagnosis, and treatment of one particular individual and are taken to hold crucial pedagogical value for medical education; case studies in political science may draw conclusions about political behavior from an in-depth study of a few different historical cases. As Mary Morgan (2014) has pointed out, even what gets labeled as a case study varies between disciplines. Making the Case brings together new works by established and emerging feminist and critical race theorists, primarily philosophers, who engage specific case studies and/or analyze case-based methodologies. In doing so, the volume seeks to demonstrate the depth and breadth of work in this area while highlighting the distinct approaches that feminist and critical race philosophers have pursued when it comes to case-study work. We use the term feminist and critical race philosophies (and philosophers ) throughout in order to identify work of feminist and critical race theorists that engages with the tools, practices, and theories of philosophy. 1 Feminist and critical race philosophers employing casework such as that represented in this volume have also reflected on the role of casework within philosophy, including both its challenges and its potential.
Historically, much of the discipline of philosophy has shied away from employing cases and case studies, seeking instead to provide abstract and decontextualized analyses, particularly in the case of those philosophers who are trained in the analytic tradition. Some of the hesitancy of philosophers to use or develop case studies stems from a conception of good philosophical analysis as necessarily abstract and removed from the messiness of life’s complexities. Many philosophical works seek to clarify the concepts and frameworks that lie behind our everyday interactions with the world and each other, with a goal of allowing us to understand and articulate the core concepts that cut across the particularities of individual cases. Relatedly, many philosophers see themselves as seeking to identify and articulate ideals that form worthy goals for human beings or offering paradigms that serve as ideal schemas from which we can better understand the world. Such philosophers focus their attention on such lofty questions as, What is the ideal of justice? the good? truth? knowledge? Sometimes, philosophers have then gone on to apply their ideal schemas to particular cases, such as has been done in the field of applied ethics. Yet, increasingly, numerous philosophers who are concerned with making philosophy relevant to understanding our current situations have found such a model of the application of a philosophical theory or ideal to be an inadequate way of engaging with cases and have questioned the value of developing philosophical theories and ideals in the abstract. These theorists’ commitment to working with cases can be understood as a form of nonideal theorizing (see Corwin Aragon’s contribution to this volume), through which the philosophizing begins with the specific situations at hand and builds from there. Feminist and critical race philosophers have been central to this trend. In this volume, we draw attention to the ways in which cases and case studies have become important methodological tools for the specific work of feminist and critical race philosophers. The individual chapters that follow showcase the wide variety of forms and uses of case studies that feminist and critical race philosophers engage; taken as a collection, they highlight certain common themes and methodological choices that are distinctive (though not exclusive) to feminist and critical race philosophy.
Trends toward Case Studies in Philosophy
In spite of philosophy’s history noted above and the persistence of certain pockets of resistance, it would be a mistake to characterize contemporary philosophy as inherently resistant to casework. Several trends within various areas of current philosophical discourse can be identified that lend themselves to the encouragement of casework.
First, the move toward naturalizing epistemology, which began with W. V. O. Quine (1969) but has developed in a variety of directions, can be read as offering strong encouragement for the use of cases and case studies within philosophy. Naturalized epistemologists claim that we cann