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Helen Longino

Stanford University
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Johns Hopkins University
Department of Philosophy
PhD
Stanford, California, United States of America
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    Science and the Common Good: Thoughts on Philip Kitcher’s S cience, Truth, and Democracy
    Philosophy of Science 69 (4): 560-568. 2002.
    In Science, Truth, and Democracy, Philip Kitcher develops the notion of well-ordered science: scientific inquiry whose research agenda and applications 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 issues to philosophical investigation and to resolution through demo…Read more
    DemocracyScience and Values
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    Scientific Pluralism. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 19
    with Stephen H. Kellert and C. Kenneth Waters
    The Pluralist 3 (1): 132-137. 2008.
    American PragmatismExplanatory PluralismScientific Method, MiscellaneousTheoretical Virtues, Misc
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    Norms and naturalism: Comments on Miriam Solomon's social empiricism
    Perspectives on Science 16 (3). 2008.
    Miriam Solomon's social empiricism is marked by emphasis on community level rationality in science and the refusal to impose a distinction between the epistemic and the non-epistemic character of factors ("decision vectors") that incline scientists for or against a theory. While she attempts to derive some norms from the analysis of cases, her insistent naturalism undermines her effort to articulate norms for the (appropriate) distribution of decision vectors.
    Rational Choice TheorySociology of Science