Helen E Longino
Biographic Data
| ID | 259134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen E Longino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Longino |
| SIGNATURE | LONGINO H E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1206-4891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 593 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Knowledge and Politics: Reflections on Challenges to Open Science
This comment focuses on the contradictions inherent in current conceptualizations and practices associated with Open Science and highlighted by the preceding set of articles. Using Longino’s Critical Contextual Empiricism (CCE), it argues that Open Science offers the potential for realization of the norms envisioned in CCE, but that the economic forces capitalizing on aspects of the call for Open Science and the current global context erode the c…
Community-led institutional innovation: Groundwater sharing, values and relationships in India’s rainfed farming systems
This paper explores the connections between contrastive sets of scientific or science-related values and equivalently contrasting institutional values and structures evident in the very practical context of water cognition and water management in rainfed farming systems. We show how these normative framings and concepts inform distinct problem statements and the differential success of water distribution schemes. We also show how the normative tr…
Interaction, pluralism, and community in conflictual contexts
Three concepts from Critical Contextual Empiricism are resonant in the context of "expert"-"lay" interactions: Interaction, pluralism, and community. These are broad concepts applied in many different contexts. I will engage with them here in several specific ways: 1. Their role in Critical Contextual Empiricism and in recent philosophical work on pluralism; 2. The way they have been used in two contexts of expert-lay engagement in areas of cente…
What's Social about Social Epistemology
A thin conception of the social pervades much philosophical writing in social epistemology. A thicker form of sociality is to be found in scientific practice, as represented in much recent history and philosophy of science. Typical social epistemology problems, such as disagreement and testimony, take on a different aspect when viewed from the perspective of scientific practice. Here interaction among researchers is central to their knowledge mak…
Scaling up; scaling down: What’s missing
Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry
Interaction: A case for ontological pluralism
This paper draws on the author's work in social epistemology and on comparative studies of sciences of human behavior to draw attention to the importance of interaction. Drawing further on recent and contemporary research in biology, she argues that interaction ought to be considered a distinct ontological category, not reducible to properties of its participants
Values, heuristics and the politics of knowledge
Há um conjunto de valores, comumente denominados cognitivos, epistêmicos ou científi cos, que com frequência são considerados informativos do bom juízo científi co, quando a evidência se esgota. Contrastando esses valores com um conjunto alternativo, delineado no trabalho de cientistas, historiadoras e fi lósofas feministas, é possível mostrar como a dependência desses valores chamados científi cos tem consequências sociais problemáticas. O artig…
Foregrounding the Background
Practice-centric and theory-centric approaches in philosophy of science are described and contrasted. The contrast is developed through an examination of their different treatments of the underdetermination problem. The practice-centric approach is illustrated by a summary of comparative research on approaches in the biology of behavior. The practice-centric approach is defended against charges that it encourages skepticism regarding the sciences
Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality
Feminist Epistemology at Hypatia's 25th Anniversary 1
This essay surveys twenty-five years of feminist epistemology in the pages of Hypatia . Feminist contributions have addressed the affective dimensions of knowledge; the natures of justification, rationality, and the cognitive agent; and the nature of truth. They reflect thinking from both analytic and continental philosophical traditions and offer a rich tapestry of ideas from which to continue challenging tradition and forging analytical tools f…
Complexity And Diversity All The Way
Whither philosophy of science
Reply to Philip Kitcher
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Science and the Common Good: Thoughts on Philip Kitcher's Science, Truth, and Democracy
In Science, Truth, and Democracy, Philip Kitcher develops the notion of well-ordered science: scientific inquiry whose research agenda and applications (but not methods) are subject to public control guided by democratic deliberation. Kitcher's primary departure from his earlier views involves rejecting the idea that there is any single standard of scientific significance. The context-dependence of scientific significance opens up many normative …
The Fate of Knowledge
Preface and Acknowledgments ix Chapter One: Introduction: The Rational-Social Dichotomy 1 Chapter Two: Taking Social Studies of Science Seriously 11 Chapter Three: The Philosophers Respond 42 Chapter Four: Disassembling the Rational-Social Dichotomy 77 Chapter Five: Socializing Cognition 97 Chapter Six: Socializing Knowledge 124 Chapter Seven: Clarifications and Responses 145 Chapter Eight: Pluralism and Local Epistemolgies 175 Chapter Nine: Conc…
What Do We Measure When We Measure Aggression
Im/partial Science: Gender Ideology in Molecular Biology . Bonnie B. Spanier Reinventing Biology: Respect for Life and the Creation of Knowledge . Lynda Birke , Ruth Hubbard Troubled Bodies: Critical …
Interpretation Versus Explanation in the Critique of Science
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The Women, Gender, and Science Question: What Do Research on Women in Science and Research on Gender and Science Have to Do with Each Other
Body, Bias, and Behaviour: A Comparative Analysis of Reasoning in Two Areas of Biological Science
Our intention in this essay is to bring to light the variety in the ways masculine bias can express itself in the content and processes of scientific research. The discussion focuses on the two areas of evolutionary studies and endocrinological research into behavioural sex differences. Although both have attempted to construe the relation between sex and gender, the forms of these disciplines differ from one another in significant respects. Exam…
Subjects, Power, and l<nowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science
Feminists, faced with traditions in philosophy and in science that are deeply hostile to women, have had practically to invest new and more appropriate ways of knowing the world. These new ways have been less invention out of whole cloth than the revival or re-evaluation of alternative or suppressed traditions. They range from the celebration of insight into nature through identification with it to specific strategies of survey research in the so…
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Feminism And Science: Oxford Readings In Feminism
Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science. Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientists have concerned themselves, and in …
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Values in Science: Rethinking the Dichotomy
The Fate of Knowledge
Preface and Acknowledgments ix Chapter One: Introduction: The Rational-Social Dichotomy 1 Chapter Two: Taking Social Studies of Science Seriously 11 Chapter Three: The Philosophers Respond 42 Chapter Four: Disassembling the Rational-Social Dichotomy 77 Chapter Five: Socializing Cognition 97 Chapter Six: Socializing Knowledge 124 Chapter Seven: Clarifications and Responses 145 Chapter Eight: Pluralism and Local Epistemolgies 175 Chapter Nine: Conc…
Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry
Can There Be A Feminist Science
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In Search Of Feminist Epistemology
Journal Article In Search of Feminist Epistemology Get access Helen E. Longino Helen E. Longino Rice University and University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 77, Issue 4, 1 October 1994, Pages 472-485, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist199477428 Published: 16 December 2014
Gender, politics, and the theoretical virtues
Feminism and Science
Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science. Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientist have concerned themselves, and in t…
The Women, Gender, and Science Question: What Do Research on Women in Science and Research on Gender and Science Have to Do with Each Other
Body, Bias, and Behavior: A Comparative Analysis of Reasoning in Two Areas of Biological Science
Science and the Common Good: Thoughts on Philip Kitcher's Science, Truth, and Democracy
In Science, Truth, and Democracy, Philip Kitcher develops the notion of well-ordered science: scientific inquiry whose research agenda and applications (but not methods) are subject to public control guided by democratic deliberation. Kitcher's primary departure from his earlier views involves rejecting the idea that there is any single standard of scientific significance. The context-dependence of scientific significance opens up many normative …
Feminist Epistemology at Hypatia's 25th Anniversary 1
This essay surveys twenty-five years of feminist epistemology in the pages of Hypatia . Feminist contributions have addressed the affective dimensions of knowledge; the natures of justification, rationality, and the cognitive agent; and the nature of truth. They reflect thinking from both analytic and continental philosophical traditions and offer a rich tapestry of ideas from which to continue challenging tradition and forging analytical tools f…
Interaction: A case for ontological pluralism
This paper draws on the author's work in social epistemology and on comparative studies of sciences of human behavior to draw attention to the importance of interaction. Drawing further on recent and contemporary research in biology, she argues that interaction ought to be considered a distinct ontological category, not reducible to properties of its participants
Feminist critiques of rationality: Critiques of science or philosophy of science
Feminist Standpoint Theory and the Problems of Knowledge Texts, Facts, and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling . Dorothy Smith Feminist Praxis: Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist …
Multiplying Subjects and the Diffusion of Power
Evidence and Hypothesis: An Analysis of Evidential Relations
The subject of this essay is the dependence of evidential relations on background beliefs and assumptions. In Part I, two ways in which the relation between evidence and hypothesis is dependent on such assumptions are discussed and it is shown how in the context of appropriately differing background beliefs what is identifiable as the same state of affairs can be taken as evidence for conflicting hypotheses. The dependence of evidential relations…
Reply to Philip Kitcher
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Scaling up; scaling down: What’s missing
Sex Hormones and Human Behavior: A Critique of the Linear Model
Behaviors in which human males and females differ are frequently attributed to fetal gonadal hormone exposures. Much current thinking on this topic relies on a model of explanation the authors call linear-analytic. This model emerges from studies of hormone-behavior relationships in nonhuman animals. Examining three areas of hormone-behavior research in humans, the authors argue that the form of explanation is inappropriate to the behavioral phen…
What Can She Know: Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge
Science, Objectivity, and Feminist Values
"Beyond "Bad Science: Skeptical Reflections on the Value-Freedom of Scientific Inquiry
It is often implied, suggested, or presupposed that and values are rather like oil and waterdistinct sorts of things that are not expected to mix. The relation of values to either does not exist or is highly problematic. Without denying the problematic nature of this relation-and with the hope of clarifying or beginning to clarify itI will suggest in this essay another way of thinking about some of the issues included under the rubric of science …
Values, heuristics and the politics of knowledge
Há um conjunto de valores, comumente denominados cognitivos, epistêmicos ou científi cos, que com frequência são considerados informativos do bom juízo científi co, quando a evidência se esgota. Contrastando esses valores com um conjunto alternativo, delineado no trabalho de cientistas, historiadoras e fi lósofas feministas, é possível mostrar como a dependência desses valores chamados científi cos tem consequências sociais problemáticas. O artig…
Foregrounding the Background
Practice-centric and theory-centric approaches in philosophy of science are described and contrasted. The contrast is developed through an examination of their different treatments of the underdetermination problem. The practice-centric approach is illustrated by a summary of comparative research on approaches in the biology of behavior. The practice-centric approach is defended against charges that it encourages skepticism regarding the sciences
What Do We Measure When We Measure Aggression
Interpretation Versus Explanation in the Critique of Science
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Evidence and Hypothesis: An Analysis of Evidential Relations
The subject of this essay is the dependence of evidential relations on background beliefs and assumptions. In Part I, two ways in which the relation between evidence and hypothesis is dependent on such assumptions are discussed and it is shown how in the context of appropriately differing background beliefs what is identifiable as the same state of affairs can be taken as evidence for conflicting hypotheses. The dependence of evidential relations…
The Death Of Nature: Women, Ecology, And The Scientific Revolution
Ecology as Politics
"Beyond "Bad Science: Skeptical Reflections on the Value-Freedom of Scientific Inquiry
It is often implied, suggested, or presupposed that and values are rather like oil and waterdistinct sorts of things that are not expected to mix. The relation of values to either does not exist or is highly problematic. Without denying the problematic nature of this relation-and with the hope of clarifying or beginning to clarify itI will suggest in this essay another way of thinking about some of the issues included under the rubric of science …
Body, Bias, and Behavior: A Comparative Analysis of Reasoning in Two Areas of Biological Science
Runaway Science or Science Overrun
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The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory. Marilyn Frye
Can There Be A Feminist Science
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Science, Objectivity, and Feminist Values
Sex Hormones and Human Behavior: A Critique of the Linear Model
Behaviors in which human males and females differ are frequently attributed to fetal gonadal hormone exposures. Much current thinking on this topic relies on a model of explanation the authors call linear-analytic. This model emerges from studies of hormone-behavior relationships in nonhuman animals. Examining three areas of hormone-behavior research in humans, the authors argue that the form of explanation is inappropriate to the behavioral phen…
Feminist critiques of rationality: Critiques of science or philosophy of science
Biological effects of low level radiation: Values, dose-response models, risk estimates
Multiplying Subjects and the Diffusion of Power
Who Knows: From Quine to a Feminist Empiricism. Lynn Hankinson Nelson
Feminist Standpoint Theory and the Problems of Knowledge Texts, Facts, and Femininity: Exploring the Relations of Ruling . Dorothy Smith Feminist Praxis: Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist …
Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality
What Can She Know: Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge
In Search Of Feminist Epistemology
Journal Article In Search of Feminist Epistemology Get access Helen E. Longino Helen E. Longino Rice University and University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 77, Issue 4, 1 October 1994, Pages 472-485, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist199477428 Published: 16 December 2014
Gender, politics, and the theoretical virtues
Body, Bias, and Behaviour: A Comparative Analysis of Reasoning in Two Areas of Biological Science
Our intention in this essay is to bring to light the variety in the ways masculine bias can express itself in the content and processes of scientific research. The discussion focuses on the two areas of evolutionary studies and endocrinological research into behavioural sex differences. Although both have attempted to construe the relation between sex and gender, the forms of these disciplines differ from one another in significant respects. Exam…
Subjects, Power, and l<nowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science
Feminists, faced with traditions in philosophy and in science that are deeply hostile to women, have had practically to invest new and more appropriate ways of knowing the world. These new ways have been less invention out of whole cloth than the revival or re-evaluation of alternative or suppressed traditions. They range from the celebration of insight into nature through identification with it to specific strategies of survey research in the so…
Title Pages
Feminism And Science: Oxford Readings In Feminism
Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science. Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientists have concerned themselves, and in …
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Values in Science: Rethinking the Dichotomy
Feminism and Science
Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science. Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientist have concerned themselves, and in t…
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