Diversity and inclusion are not new ideas to Stanford University philosopher Helen Longino. She has long argued that scientific progress is dependent upon a plurality of perspectives; that when inquiry is open to many disparate points of view, it’s more open to critical analysis and thus more objective.

Throughout America’s turbulent social movements of the 1960s and 70s, Longino helped lead the charge in advancing women’s studies programs. Equally important has been her pioneering advocacy and critical contributions for increasing the quality and quantity of female intellectual discourse in the male-dominated discipline of philosophy.

This is the annual Thomas Hall Lecture in History of Science.

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