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Who is Helen Longino?
Helen Longino is an American philosopher of science who has long argued the relation of social interactions and scientific inquiry. She has defended the role of women in science and has become a central figure in feminist epistemology and social epistemology. “Helen Longino.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Nov. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Longino. -
received her BA from Barnard College in 1966
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Received her MA in Philosophy from Sussex University in 1967
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her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in 1973.
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Science As Social Knowledge
She argues that a methodology powerful enough to account for theories of any scope and depth is incapable of ruling out the influence of social and cultural values in the very structuring of knowledge. The objectivity of scientific inquiry can nevertheless be maintained, she proposes, by understanding scientific inquiry as a social rather than an individual process. Longino develops and explains the concept of “contextual empiricism”. -
The Fate of Knowledge
Building on ideas from her book Science as Social Knowledge, she states social interaction actually assists us in securing firm, rationally based knowledge. She brings her account into dialogue with current work in social epistemology and science studies and shows how her critical social approach can help solve a variety of stubborn problems. The book focuses on epistemological concerns related to the sociality of inquiry and also takes up its implications for scientific pluralism. -
Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy
Became the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy and served as chair of the philosophy department at Stanford University from 2008-2011 -
Studying Human Behavior
Studying Human Behavior, a study of the relationship between logical, epistemological, and social aspects of behavioral research. She dissects five approaches to the study of behavior—quantitative behavioral genetics, molecular behavior genetics, developmental psychology, neurophysiology and anatomy, and social/environmental methods -
President of the Philosophy of Science Association ( 2013-2014)
https://youtu.be/631gObE7ctA this video is a lecture that Helen Longino gave at Western University in 2015 that explore how the same phenomenon assumes different forms from different research perspectives and consequences of this for our understanding of scientific knowledge.
