Helen longino

Helen Longino (1944-)

  • Helen's Schooling

    Helen earned her BA of Literature from the Barnard College in 1966. She then went on to get her MA of Philosophy from the University of Sussex in England in 1967. After that she approached her PhD from John Hop University in 1973. She became a Philosophy Professor at Stanford University in 2008 where she continues to teach.
  • Helen Writes Her First Book

    Science as a Social Knowledge was published in 1990. This was a book that "develops a contextual empiricism to analyze research in human evolution and in neuroendocrinology. In addition to the direct role played by gender bias, scholars have attended to the ways shared values in the context of reception can confer an a priori implausibility on certain ideas (Longino, 2019).
  • Another Boook?

    The Fate of Knowledge was published in 2001. This was about her trying to reconcile the knowledge of philosophers.
  • Her Final Book

    Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality was published in 2013. This book is about the 5 scientific ways you can approach sexuality and aggression. This book had two parts. The first part being the cientific approaches and the second part being the philosophical conclusions about those approaches.