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Helen Longino (1944- Present - 75 Years Old)

By Bo Eltzroth

  • Received BA in English Literautre

    Helen Longino received her BA in English Literature from Barnard College in 1966. She is an American Philosopher of Science, who has argued for the significance of values and social interactions to scientific inquiry.

  • Received MA in Philosophy

    Received MA in Philosophy from University of Sussex in England in 1967.

  • Received PhD

    Received PhD from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Wrote her dissertation on the "Inference and Scientific Discovery."

  • Taught at the University of California, San Diego

  • Taught at Mills College

  • Taught at Rice University

    While teaching she published her first book "Science as Social Knowledge" She wrote about the relevance of social values, and the values that are a part of the human context of science.

  • Taught at University of Minnesota

  • Received Robert K. Merton Award

    "The Fate of Knowledge(2001)," received the Robert K. Merton Award for the best book from the section of Science, Knowledge, and Technology of the American Sociological Association.

  • Published, "Epistemology as a Local Epistemology"

    "Epistemology as a Local Epistemology" was published by Helen E Longino, and Kathleen Lennon. Which focuses on the examination of epistemology from a feminists standpoint, and the way in which gender influences our concepts of knowledge.

  • Stanford University

    She became the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy. A woman of her time, she set a status quo on being a philosopher. She developed these standards while she was seated as a Chair of the Philosophy Department from 2008 to 2011.

  • Feminist Philosophy Prize

    "Studying Human Behavior(2013)", was awarded the best book in Feminist Philosophy Prize for the year. Awarded by the Women's Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association.

  • Her Lectures

    here is a link to a You Tube video lecture by Longino. This lecture video will speak towards "how the same phenomenon assumes different forms from different research perspectives and consequences" in regards to our understanding of scientific knowledge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=631gObE7ctA

  • American Academy of Art and Sciences

    Elected to the American Academy of Art and Sciences.

  • American Association

    Elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

  • Tip of The Scientific Feminist Spear

    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 to science, some of Longino's other work has been more explicitly feminist and concerned with women. For example, she has presented and analyzed alternative narratives of female and male-centered accounts of human evolution, emphasizing the impact of gender-centered assumptions on the formation of theory and the differences between them.

  • Works Cited

    YouTube, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=631gObE7ctA. “Helen Longino.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 30 Aug. 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Longino.

  • Works Cited

    Ilea, Ramona, et al. Moral Philosophy and Social Change. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1 Jan. 2006, http://search.proquest.com/docview/305314532/. Rolin, Kristina, et al. Gender, Emotions, and Epistemic Values in High-Energy Physics: A Feminist Challenge for Scientific Methodology. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1 Jan. 1996, http://search.proquest.com/docview/304262220/.