Helen Longino Quotes on Truth
Helen Longino is an American philosopher of science, professor emerita at Stanford University, and one of the leading defenders of social epistemology in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This page collects quotes attributed to Helen Longino on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Helen Longino:
“Objectivity is a social achievement, not the property of an isolated knower.”
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Attributed to Helen Longino:
“Transformative criticism is the heart of scientific practice.”
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Attributed to Helen Longino:
“Where there is no plurality of perspectives, the assumptions of inquiry pass unnoticed and unrevised.”
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“Feminists—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.”
(Fall 1987) " Can There be a Feminist Science? ". Hypatia 2 (3: Special Issue: Feminism and Science, Part 1): 51–64. DOI : 10.1111/j.1527-2001.1987.tb01341.x .