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Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry
Within Chapter 2 of her book, Helen Longino explores the methodology, goals, and practices of science. Questions are brought; such as, how do we move from the naive perception of the world to theories of the detail and specificity of subatomic particle physics or molecular biology, or what about the human mind or brain impels and enables us to develop theories and explanations of the natural world? Including philosophical questions like if we do know, how do we know? -
Feminist Epistemology As a Local Epistemology
Helen Longino discusses key topics concerning Feminist Epistemology and pursues one line of thought in feminist epistemology with a view to sorting out the relation between it and general epistemology, and between it and other approaches in feminist theory of knowledge. Longino clarifies what feminist epistemology is not some including it is not the study or defence of feminine intuition, not an embrace of irrationally or Protagorean relativism. -
What Do We Measure When We Measure Aggression?
Through several key points: the political context, the variety of approaches to studying aggression, what is aggression with research reports and reviews, appearance and reality, and then the conclusion, Longino reviews some contrasting approaches to the biological understanding of behavior - behavioral genetic, social-environmental, physiological, developmental - as a prelude to arguing that approaches to aggression are beset by vagueness and imprecision in their definitions and -
Reply to Philip Kitcher
As written in the abstract section, "Philip Kitcher develops the notion of well-ordered science: scientific inquiry whose research agenda and applications are subject to public control guided by democratic deliberation. Kitcher's primary departure from his earlier views involves rejecting the idea that there is a single standard of scientific significance. The context-dependence of scientific significance opens up many normative issues to philosophical investigation and to resolution
