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She receives her b.A degree in English literature
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She receives her M.A. in philosophy.
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She receives her PH.D.
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Longino taught the University of California
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Longino continues to teach at Mills University
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Longino writes her first book, showing the importance of social values which is important with the correlation of humans and science, with the validation of scientific information. She seems to try to open dialogue "between methodologists and social critics of the sciences," she develops this concept of "contextual empiricism" which gets backlass from feminist. This book examine gender role behavior are related to social values.
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She then teaches at University of MInnesota
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Longino writes her second book , The Fate of Knowledge this book attempts to resolve the battle and debate among philosophers of science and sociologist of science about the “role of social forces in constructing scientific knowledge.”
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She finally joins the philosophy department of Stanford University
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With Longino's third book Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality , where she tries to answer the age old question "nature vs nurture" but she doesn't take the normal approach. Instead she comes up with these five approaches to behavior: "quantitative behavioral genetics, molecular behavior genetics, developmental psychology, neurophysiology and anatomy, and social/environmental methods." She concludes that there isn't one way to skin a cat, basically.
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Helen E. Longino
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