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Longino, Helen E. Science As Social Knowledge. Princeton University Press, 1990.
Longino claimed that scientist take observations and data of the sort which are not by themselves indication for or against any specific premises. The significance of any specific data for any particular premise is decided by the beliefs and perceptions held by humans, as well as the assumptions regarding the sort of data that supports the different premises. Even when this happens, there remains a logical gap between evidence and full justification of interesting scientific theories -
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Philosophical work
the social dimensions of scientific knowledge and the relations of social and cognitive values -
Longino, Helen E. The Fate Of Knowledge Helen E. Longino. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Longino seeks to break the current deadlock in the ongoing wars between philosophers and sociologists of science — academic battles founded on disagreement about the role of social forces in constructing scientific knowledge. She challenges the assumption that social forces are a source of bias and irrationality, arguing that social interaction actually assists us in securing firm, rationally based knowledge: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691088761/the-fate-of-knowledge -
Longino, Helen E. Studying Human Behavior. Princetown University, 2013.
Longino centers on how researchers study sexual conduct and hostility, and gets some information about human conduct through experimental examination. She analyzes five ways to deal with the investigation of conduct - quantitative social hereditary qualities, sub-atomic conduct hereditary qualities, formative brain science, neurophysiology and life structures, and social/ecological strategies - featuring the presumptions of these orders, just as the various inquirie and every location. -
How to study human behavior
in this video, one can gain a basic understanding of what it entail to study human behavior. In other words, it provides a framework from which one can inter-prate and understand the importance of Longino's arguments on studying human behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E18fg0Rh5mk
