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Helen Longino

Professor of Philosophy
Stanford University

Helen Longino is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford [University]. Her teaching and research interests are in philosophy of science, social epistemology, and feminist philosophy. She is the author of Science As Social Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 1990), The Fate of Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 2001), and many articles in the philosophy of science, feminist philosophy and epistemology. Among her many co-edited volumes is Scientific Pluralism, forthcoming as Vol. XIX of the Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science.

She is currently completing a book length comparative analysis of four approaches in the sciences of human behavior, focusing on research on aggression and research on sexual orientation. This analysis includes both an examination of the logical structures and interrelations of these approaches and study of their social and cultural reception and uptake.

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