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Birth and Background
Helen Longino is an American philosopher of science who has argued for the significance of values and social interactions to scientific inquiry. She has written about the role of women in science and is a central figure in feminist epistemology and social epistemology. She is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.https://profiles.stanford.edu/helen-longino?tab=research-and-scholarship -
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Helen received her Degrees
Helen Longino began her extensive journey through college when she graduated first from Barnard College in 1966. And in 1967 she received her MA in Philosophy from Sussex1967, then Received her PhD from John Hopkins University in the year 1973. https://profiles.stanford.edu/helen-longino?tab=bio -
Helen's Philosophy work
In her work, Longino discusses the social dimensions of scientific knowledge and the relations of social and cognitive values. She examines feminist and social epistemologies and their implications for scientific pluralism. Rather than suggesting that there is a distinctively female way of knowing, Longino emphasizes the idea of "doing epistemology as a feminist", an approach bringing with it an awareness of the many ways in which a question may be characterized. -
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Helen's Books
n 1990- she released her first book entitled ‘Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry.’ This established her in the field of philosophy well. She has since been recognized for her writings such as her second book. “The fate of knowledge” she tackles issues of feminist theory but also addresses the issue with science vs. social influence. -
Helen's Outlook
Though her work on the nature of scientific knowledge is broadly feminist in the sense that it argues for the value of contributions by diverse people (and accordingly the value of the contributions of women) to science, some of Longino's other work has been more explicitly feminist and concerned with women. Here is a video you can view on her philosophy and work from 2021: https://youtu.be/XysYymrh7IE