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Helen Longino born July 13, 1944 is an American philosopher and philosopher of science. Longino is best known for her influential book "Science as Social Knowledge": One of her most cited philosophical essays, "Science and the Importance of Social Context" where she states that science should be less objectified and more personalized with the use of social context as the driver where science is shaped in.
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Longino presents this book as a socially relevant work and shows why the shift from exclusively empiricist to a more responsive and socially oriented approach to scientific inquiry is a must (1993). -
Longino links the contextual empiricism approach, which is about employing the social, cultural, and historical guidelines while coming up with the knowledge that is based on science (1997). -
The significant contribution of Longino to feminist epistemology is the call for female participation and inclusion in scientific research along with the introduction of the feminist standpoint and approaches to the general problem area (2003) -
Longino elaborates that sociological factors including gender, race, and power structure contribute towards the formation of a scientific knowledge which grounds and constitutes the scientific norms where the members of a dominant group are, of course, most likely to determine the scientific norms (2013). -
Helen Longino has made extraordinary progress in her academic career. She has made such improvement in connection with the philosophy of science, particularly social epistemology and feminism. What keeps Longino motivated and continually working hard is the impact she makes through her various publications on these subjects. These writings not only make the ongoing dialogues and debates on these topics more comprehensible but also offer an intricate contribution to her area of study (2024).