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Helen Elizabeth Longino July 13, 1944
Helen Elizabeth Longino was born on July 13, 1944 in Jacksonville, FL. She played a huge role in fighting for the significance of values and social interactions in feminist epistemology and social epistemology. Currently she is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy, emerita, at Stanford University. -
Helen Elizabeth Longino July 13, 1944
Helen graduated from Barnard College in 1966 where she obtained a B.A. in English literature. She then received her philosophy Masters degree in 1967 from the University of Sussex, England. Traveling all the way back to receive her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1973. She then went on to teach at numerous universities all across the USA, before landing at Stanford University. -
Helen Elizabeth Longino July 13, 1944
In 1990, she wrote her first book Science as Social Knowledge. She contended the relevance of social values to the pretext of scientific knowledge as objective. She then argues that observations and data taken by scientists is not evidence against or for any hypothesis. -
Helen Elizabeth Longino July 13, 1944
Longino wrote her most influential book in 2001, The Fate of Knowledge. In 2002 she received the Robert K. Merton Professional Award for best book from the Section for Science, Knowledge, and Technology of the American Sociological Association. This book talks about the relationship between the knowledge of philosophers and sociologists of science. -
Helen Elizabeth Longino July 13, 1944
Longinos most recent book was written in 2013, Studying Human Behavior. In 2014 this book was awarded the Best Book in Feminist Philosophy Prize. She uses five different ways of analyzing specific scientific approaches to the epistemological framework of human human aggression and sexuality. She then fights that scientific research is useful as a guide for policy makers.