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Longino received her B.A. in English literature from Barnard College in NY
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Longino received her M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Sussex in England
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Longino competed her PhD at John Hopkins University with a dissertation on "Inference and Scientific Discovery."
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Longino's first book explains how science is a social rather than individual process and develops her idea of "contextual empiricism." Longino examines gender-roles, evolution, sexual orientation, and gender-based behavior and its role in science and its relation to ideology and values. This was the beginning of Longino's emphasis of the importance social interactions on scientific inquiry.
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Longino's book was published in 2002. Longino discusses the debate between philosophy and sociology while siding with sociology. Longino explains how noncognitive factors effect the way scientists learn and how they display their knowledge. Longino challenges the assumption that sociology is full of bias and irrationality. Instead, she argues social discussions secure firm, rationally based knowledge.
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Longino continues to teach philosophy at Stanford University to this day.
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President of the Philosophy of Science Association from 2013-2014.
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One of Longino's most well-known books, Longinos discusses the study of human behavior, specifically aggression and sexual behavior. She dissects the study into five sections: quantitative behavioral genetics, molecular behavior genetics, developmental psychology, neurophysiology and anatomy, and social/environmental methods. Longino does not side with any one approach, but instead explains how they are all apart of discovery.
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Helen Longino discusses how gender has been misconstrued in science in the podcast, Philosophy Talk, episode "Does Science Over-reach?" Link to the podcast and a quick video featuring Helen Longino's audio here. (Longino speaks to interviewer Liza Veale from 4:00-5:00.)
