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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
  •  6
    Subjects, Power, and Knowledge
    In Janet A. Kourany (ed.), The Gender of Science, Prentice-hall. pp. 310-21. 2002.
    Science and Values
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    Circles of Reason: Some Feminist Reflections on Reason and Rationality
    Episteme 2 (1): 79-88. 2005.
    Rationality and reason are topics so fraught for feminists that any useful reflection on them requires some prior exploration of the difficulties they have caused. One of those difficulties for feminists and, I suspect, for others in the margins of modernity, is the rhetoric of reason – the ways reason is bandied about as a qualification differentially bestowed on different types of person. Rhetorically, it functions in different ways depending on whether it is being denied or affirmed. In this …Read more
    RationalityFeminist Epistemology
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    Pornography, oppression, and freedom : a closer look
    In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring ethics: an introductory anthology, Oxford University Press Usa. 2009.
    Pornography
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    The Pluralist Stance
    with Stephen H. Kellert and C. Kenneth Waters
    In Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino & C. Kenneth Waters (eds.), ¸ Itekellersetal:Sp, University of Minnesota Press. 2006.
    This essay introduces the volume Scientific Pluralism (Volume 19 of Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science). Varieties of recent pluralisms are surveyed, the difference between monism and pluralism vis a vis the sciences is clarified, and the authors’ notion of scientific pluralism is advanced.
    Scientific DiscoveryExplanatory Pluralism