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About Helen
Helen is an American philosopher of science she has argued for the importance of the values and social interactions to scientific world. She has written about the roles women have in science and is a prominent figure in feminist epistemology and social epistemology. She has three books and several published articles about her research and findings. Helen has opened doors in science to women and given so many the opportunity to expand in fields that was once impossible or merely a dream. -
Helen Longino
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Science as Social Knowledge
Longino covered the relevance of areas in social values to justification of scientific knowledge as objective. She argues that observations and data taken by scientist are not by themselves evidence for or against any particular hypotheses in contextual empiricism. -
The Fate of Knowledge
Helen Longino attempts to find a common medium between philosophers of science and sociologist of science. Most philosophers of science don’t recognize social forces and claim that scientific knowledge is considered a product of cognitive processes. Sociologist tends to believe that non- cognitive factors influence what scientist learn, process and accept information. This book received the Robert K. Merton Professional Award in 2002. -
Studying Human Behavior: How scientist investigate aggression and sexuality.
Helen goes into the complexities of human behavioral research. She doesn’t support one side or the other and does not attempt to replace that dichotomy with a different understanding of behavior. This book focuses on how scientists study sexual behavior and aggression through empirical investigation. This book was awarded the Best Book in Feminist Philosophy Prize for 2014 by the Women’s Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association.
