hlongino@umn.edu

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I teach and conduct research in philosophy of science, social epistemology, and feminist philosophy. In recent years I have taught graduate seminars in social epistemology and in social aspects of scientific knowledge, as well as an undergraduate course in scientific thought. I am also on the faculty of the Women's Studies Department, where I teach a graduate course on gender, culture, and science and one in feminist approaches to knowledge, in addition to undergraduate courses in Women's Studies. I am a member of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science and participate in the graduate minor in studies of science and technology.

My research interests have included the relations of social and cognitive values in the sciences, the epistemological challenges of scientific pluralism, the philosophical character of feminist epistemologies, and the development of a social approach to scientific knowledge. I have recently completed some papers examining biologically based approaches to studying human behavior and am currently finishing a book-length manuscript which extends and refines the social account of scientific knowledge.

Selected Publications

"Toward an Epistemology for Biological Pluralism." In Biology and Epistemology, eds. J. Richard Creath and Jane Maienschein. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

"Explanation v. Interpretation in the Critique of Science." Science in Context 10 (1997).

"Feminist Epistemology as a Local Epistemology." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplement (1997).

"Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Values in Science: Rethinking the Dichotomy." In Feminism, Science, and Philosophy of Science, eds. Jack Nelson and Lynn Hankinson Nelson. Kluwer, 1996.

"The Fate of Knowledge in Social Theories of Science." In Socializing Epistemology, ed. Frederick Schmitt. Rowman and Littlefield, 1994.

Science as Social Knowledge. Princeton University Press, 1990.