week 4 pragmatism and feminism

Pragmatism and Feminist Epistemology both challenge the view of knowledge as a detached, intellectual activity. Do you think they are right? How do you think we should think about knowledge? Now that we have concluded the section on epistemology, write about what kind of thing you think knowledge is.     Certainly, both of sides and the way they thought was just different from other philosophers that we studied earlier.     Well, pragmatism flourished from late 19th century to early 20th century and around that time I think I could understand why they had to think of the knowledge that way. They didn't look just as it is, but something else that enables us to do something ...In other words, for pragmatists, knowledge was supposed to make us more practical and active to achieve a certain beliefs. The way they thought and when I think about many provocations back then, I think they were right about using knowledge as a tool to produce useful materials and also succeed according to one's belief.      As a result,  It made enough to face the challenges at that time in many countries as they adapted capitalism.           As I look back what I've learned from the last 4 weeks, this society, we're living in has  adapted ideas from Socrates through Descartes, Empiricism, Kant to pragmatism and last 50 years, until now women have been trying to discover what we are and also what's difference between women and men as members who consist and contribute this society. I think there's no genuine knowledge that ultimately right and true all the time. I think knowledge and great thoughts has been changed through the time and I believe It is still changing and It will keep changing as people and society are changing.             Therefore, In some aspects, I have to agree with Socrates that 'we know nothing' and also with Descartes that 'I think therefore I exist.' cause I know now through the study that without thinking and seeking for the knowledge It won't move forward for sure.