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Cultural Studies & Gender Forum Speaker Series: Helen Longino
Sabancı University
Gender and Womens Studies Forum Cultural Studies
Speaker Series:
Orthodox vs. Non-Orthodox Feminist Values
in Science
by
Helen Longino
Stanford University
Wednesday March 21st 2012
15:00-17:00 FASS 2034
Helen Longino is Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. Her areas of specialty include the philosophy of science social epistemology and feminist philosophy. Originally a student of literature Longino pursued graduate study in logic and the philosophy of language. She is currently completing a monograph analyzing the evidential structures and frameworks of inquiry of contemporary scientific approaches to the study of human behavior.
Recent publications: A few major recent publications include The Fate of Knowledge Princeton UP 2001 Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry Princeton UP 1990 Toward an Epistemology for Biological Pluralism in Biology and Epistemology eds. J. Richard Creath and Jane Maienschein Cambridge UP 1999 Explanation v. Interpretation in the Critique of Science in Science in Context 1997 and Feminist Epistemology as a Local Epistemology in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplement 1997. In 2006 she co-edited a volume titled Feminism and Science Oxford UP with Evelyn Fox-Keller.
Gender Forum Speaker Series: Helen Longino
21.03.2012
