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Background
American philosopher, professor and feminist, Helen Longino has made various contributions to the Philosophy of Science on the role of social interaction in scientific objectivity and the role of values. And as a woman in STEM, her focused involved being knowledgeable in social epistemology as well as feminist epistemology. (Washington University in St. Louis) Image:
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Women's Liberation Movements
Longino made a huge impact in the women’s liberation movements, which occurred in the 1960 – 1970s. She was about to advance Throughout America’s turbulent social movements of the 1960s and 70s. MCCollum, Niamh. "It’s 50 years since the Women’s Liberation Movement, so what’s changed?." Photograph.
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Women's Studies Programs
As a professor and as chair of the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, she used her platform to various educational programs that focused on women’s studies which also while shining a light on the discrimination against women. -
"Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry"
Helen Longino wrote a book called, "Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry", which was a huge milestone in her life. This book gives readers an insight on the social science of sex differences in cognition, sex-differentiated behavior, gender role behavior, social values, and diversity. She also speaks about various philosophers such as Foucault, Habermas, Haraway, and Keller on their views of overall relation science, values, and ideology.
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The Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge and Social Empiricism
Her work extended to study of social aspects of inquiry in regard to the effect of social relations and values on scientific research, human life, and social dimensions of scientific knowledge overall. During this time, Longino developed a contextual empiricism (theory) to get an analysis on neuroendocrinology in regard to human evolution. It also focuses on gender bias and various ideas of priori implausibility.(Longino, Helen) -
Biology, Femininity, and Philosophy of Science
Helen wrote several articles on her views and studies of gender, knowledge of body and its value, femininity, and how the philosophy of science views these things in its entirety. Her intentions are to let people know that, in order to reach or achieve a common goal, it’s important to treat people equally so that we can work together and succeed. -
Fate of Knowledge
In Helen’s second book, Fate of Knowledge, she gives a descriptive visual of her ideas and views on the many reasons she believes that science is also social. She also combines and compare the knowledge of philosophers along with sociologists of science in order to prove her findings. There has always been an ongoing conflict between sociology and philosophy of science regarding the role of social forces and its involvement of scientific knowledge. In this book, she’s trying to bridge the gap. -
“Who Owns Science?” Scientists From Diverse Perspectives Answer
Dr. Longino gave a speech at the 24th annual Association for Psychological Science convention on the quality of knowledge and its impact on diversity. She talked about how it’s imperative that engagement with criticism allows everyone’s voice to be heard and views to be seen. By actually engaging the critics, views that might have been discarded are no longer marginalized, inquiry broadens, and an important, unexpected, and diverse perspective asserts itself. (Szegedy-Maszak, Mairanne) -
Philosophy of Science
Helen wrote her 3rd book called, Studying Human Behavior where she focused on a well-known debate, “nature versus nurture”. She also served as the president of the Philosophy Association during this time. She went it depth on how it’s important to do more empirical investigation to study human behavior, instead of focusing on aggression and sexual behavior. What else can be known about human behavior? (Longino) -
American Academy of Arts Sciences Inductee
Helen was inducted into the American Academy of Arts Sciences because of many works in the world philosophy of science and award winnings books. -
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Philosophy of Science - First Vice President
Dr. Helen Longino became the 1st Vice President of the Division of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science
