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Helen Longino's first published work, an essay in the Philosophy of Science, focused on the dependence of evidential relations on background beliefs and assumptions.
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Although this was a smaller publication compared to her later works, Longino’s essay in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society on “the variety of ways masculine bias can express itself in the content and process of scientific research” paved the way for the scientific community to consider the benefits of diversity in that it is in researchers’ epistemic interest to take active steps to increase gender diversity (Longino, 1983). -
In her first book, Helen Longino develops a contextual empiricism to analyze research in human evolution and in neuroendocrinology. This publication highlights “the direct role played by gender bias, scholars have attended to the ways shared values in the context of reception can confer an a priori implausibility on certain ideas” (Longino, 2019) -
An article published with American feminist and scholar Evelynn Hammonds, "Conflicts and Tensions in the Feminist Study of Gender and Science" reflects upon the development of the field of feminist science studies in the 1980s.
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Focusing on what would later become one of Longino’s major contributions to the scientific community, this publication underlines her work on the theoretical virtues, feminist versus traditional. "This essay contrasts a traditional set of such virtues with a set of alternative virtues drawn from feminist writings about the sciences" (Longino, 1995). -
Longino’s perspectives published in her second influential book concentrates on the struggle between philosophers of science and sociologists of science, which she challenges by “arguing that social interaction actually assists us in securing firm, rationally based knowledge” (Longino, 2018).
In 2002, Longino's analysis received the Robert K. Merton Professional Award for best book from the Section for Science, Knowledge, and Technology of the American Sociological Association. -
In 2005, Helen Longino became a Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, where she continues to teach today. Below are the awards and honors she has received:
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Longino’s third published book centered on a study conducted on the relationship between logical, epistemological, and social aspects of behavioral research. During her lecture at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy (https://youtu.be/dZcZ7JIyACc), Longino explained the difference between studying human behavior as an individual characteristic versus studying it as a group property. She frequently examines the influence of bias and perspectives in human behaviors.