Helen Longino

Helen Longino in 2015

Helen Elizabeth Longino (born July 13, 1944) is an American philosopher of science who has argued for the significance of values and social interactions to scientific inquiry. She has written about the role of women in science and is a central figure in feminist epistemology and social epistemology. She is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. In 2016, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Quotes

• Feminist-in and out of science- often condemn masculine bias in the sciences from the vantage point of commitment to a value-free science. Androcentric bias, once identified , can then be seen as a violation of the rules, as "bad" science. Feminist science, by contrast, can eliminate that bias and produce better, good, more true, or gender-free science.
  • Can There be a Feminist Science? ^{[specific citation needed]}