Thanks. I’m not sure I agree that there is only one way of knowing and that’s the scientific method. Perhaps this is a verbal dispute, but, for example, it seems to me that I know I’m 34 years old or that it’s Thursday but it’s not obvious to me that I do so by following the scientific method. If you say it is, say because it involves observation (in some sort of etiolated sense for the age example), then I’m tempted to say that the concept will be so broad that it won’t be useful.

I also think, btw, that the vast majority of standpoint theorists — if you actually look at what they say — won’t have wildly anti-scientific viewpoints. They’ll believe in relativity and penicilin and so on. They might think that sometimes the institution of science is biased in certain way, and they might also think that occupying a particular perspective can help one gain a bit of knowledge about a bit of reality, but in general it seems to be a lot of the anti-standpoint epistemology stuff is opposed to a straw man. At the very least, the sort of standpoint theory I’d want to defend would be as in this paragraph.