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The Philosopher Helen Longino was born today. After receiving her PhD, she focused on the relationships between scientific inquiry and its social, cultural, and economic context as well as feminist philosophy. Source:
Dcosta, Malcolm. Ethics in Science, http://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Seminars/Helen-Longino.php. -
Helen published her first body of work: Science as Social Knowledge, which talked about the importance of Social Values and justifying the priority of making scientific research objective. Image is a snippet from her book:
Longino, Helen E. Science as Social Knowledge Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry. Princeton University Press, 1990. -
Helen argued that scientific principles were based on social values and therefore could be incorporated into the scientific method. She believed that somebody's diversity allowed them to help better decide where data collected could apply.
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Solomon, Miriam, and Alan Richardson. “A Critical Context for Longino’s Critical Contextual Empiricism.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, vol. 36, no. 1, 2005, pp. 211–222., doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2004.12.014.
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Within this book, Longino investigates some varying epistemological approaches to science and what correlations, differences, and quality of data they produce to give a bigger picture on the role of sexuality in science.
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Basing these ideas on Contextual Empiricism, she argued that because it's an 'individuals' experiences and point of view that determines their scientific ideas, the idea of 'females being equal to males' should not be the focus of feminism.
Longino, Helen E. “Feminist Epistemology.” The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, 2017, pp. 325–353., doi:10.1002/9781405164863.ch14.
