Sandra Harding is a Professor of Education and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a philosopher and taught for two decades at the University of Delaware before joining UCLA in 1996. At UCLA she directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for 4.5 years, and currently co-edits Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.

She is the author or editor of ten books and special journal issues, including…

• Can Theories Be Refuted? Essays on the Duhen-Quine Thesis. Edited 1976
• Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Co-edited with Merrill Hintikka. 1983.
• The Science Question in Feminism. 1986.
• Sex and Scientific Inquiry. Co-edited with Jean O’Barr. 1987.
• Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues. Edited. 1987.
• Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking From Women’s Lives. 1991.
• The ‘Racial’ Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future. Edited. 1993.
• Is Science Multicultural? Post Colonialisms, Feminism, and Epistemologies. 1998.
• Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World. Co-edited with Uma Narayan. 2000. (Appeared as a special double issues of Hypatia in 1998 under the title “Border Crossings: Multicultural and Postcolonial Feminist Challenges to Philosophy.”)

She has lectured in over 200 universities and conference in North America, Europe, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and Central America. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Costa Rica, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. She has been a consultant to several United Nations Organizations including the Pan American Health Organization UNESCO, the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and the U.N. Commission on Science and Technology for Development.