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Birthplace
Helen Elizabeth Longino was born on July 13, 1944 and is still thriving to this day. She is currently 74 years old. -
Contextual Empiricism
Longino believed that what is not immune to contextual values is the "acceptance and justification" of scientific hypotheses. She argued that there are "standards of rational acceptability that are independent of particular interests and values but that satisfaction of these standards by a theory or hypothesis does not guarantee that the theory or hypothesis in question is value- or interest- free.” -
Science as Social Knowledge
In 1990 Longino wrote a book called "Science as Social Knowledge." In this book she believed that science was built on social values and diversity. Similar to the theory of Popper, her argument was that background assumptions led to conceptual criticism which exposed subjective biases. Biases were a critical process that made objective knowledge possible. -
The Fate of Knowledge
The Fate of Knowledge was Helen's second published book. This book entails more details on how sociality ties in with the philosophy of science. In my opinion, this offered a positive view of how to integrate social considerations into epistemology as well as exposing the failures of previous efforts. -
Feminist Epistemology as a Local Epistemology
"Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science studies the ways in which gender does and ought to influence our conceptions of knowledge, the knowing subject, and practices of inquiry and justification." This was able to shed some light on how women faced adversities in certain dominant groups. https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Longino-Lennon-Feminist-Epistemology-as-a-Local-Epistemology-Copie.pdf https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-epistemology/ -
Epistemology
