In "Studying Human Behavior", Helen E. Longino enters into the complexities of human behavioral research, a domain still dominated by the age-old debate of "nature versus nurture." Rather than supporting one side or another or attempting to replace that dichotomy with a different framework for under[...]

Helen Longino seeks to break the current deadlock in the ongoing wars between philosophers of science and sociologists of science - academic battles founded on disagreement about the role of social forces in constructing scientific knowledge. While many philosophers of science downplay social forces[...]