Interactions: Feminism, Science, and Knowledge – Engagements with the Philosophy of Helen Longino

Helen Longino is recognized as one of the most influential contemporary figures in philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and social epistemology. Her work ranges from general methodological issues in philosophy of science to examinations of specific topics within philosophy of biology and the study of human behavior.  She is one of the pioneers of feminist philosophy of science, developing the most widely recognized version of a feminist empiricism, critical contextual empiricism, which establishes the compatibility of explicitly feminist commitments with scientific objectivity. This work has been of foundational importance within philosophy of science and epistemology more generally.  This volume offers a wide array of critical appraisals of and engagements with Longino’s key ideas, advancing a new generation of scholarly engagement with her work.