Daniel Hicks (University of California, Davis)
Feminist philosophers of science continue to draw on ideas about trust and trustworthiness developed by feminist ethicist Annette Baier more than thirty years ago (Baier 1986). Why does Baier remain popular among feminist philosophers? In this paper, I suggest that Baier's account of trust supports a characteristic kind of feminist critique of science. This feature of Baier's account means that it is also relevant, as a descriptive theory, to contemporary empirical work on conservative attacks on environmental science.
