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Helen Longino is an American philosopher of science who has long argued the relation of social interactions and scientific inquiry. She has defended the role of women in science and has become a central figure in feminist epistemology and social epistemology. “Helen Longino.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Nov. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Longino.
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She argues that a methodology powerful enough to account for theories of any scope and depth is incapable of ruling out the influence of social and cultural values in the very structuring of knowledge. The objectivity of scientific inquiry can nevertheless be maintained, she proposes, by understanding scientific inquiry as a social rather than an individual process. Longino develops and explains the concept of “contextual empiricism”.
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Building on ideas from her book Science as Social Knowledge, she states social interaction actually assists us in securing firm, rationally based knowledge. She brings her account into dialogue with current work in social epistemology and science studies and shows how her critical social approach can help solve a variety of stubborn problems. The book focuses on epistemological concerns related to the sociality of inquiry and also takes up its implications for scientific pluralism.
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Became the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy and served as chair of the philosophy department at Stanford University from 2008-2011
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Studying Human Behavior, a study of the relationship between logical, epistemological, and social aspects of behavioral research. She dissects five approaches to the study of behavior—quantitative behavioral genetics, molecular behavior genetics, developmental psychology, neurophysiology and anatomy, and social/environmental methods
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https://youtu.be/631gObE7ctA this video is a lecture that Helen Longino gave at Western University in 2015 that explore how the same phenomenon assumes different forms from different research perspectives and consequences of this for our understanding of scientific knowledge.
