The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Helen Longino (Stanford University) will give the 2021 Romanell Lecture at the 2021 Pacific Division meeting in Portland, Oregon.
The Patrick Romanell Lecture is presented annually at a divisional meeting of the APA on the topic of philosophical naturalism. The lecture comes with a monetary award of $1,200 plus travel costs, and the lecture will be published in the APA Proceedings and Addresses.
The chair of the selection committee said, “We nominated Helen Longino for her ground-breaking work in exploring the social dimensions of epistemology and philosophy of science and the way differing evaluative perspectives figure in scientific theorizing. We also were impressed with Longino’s important work in feminist epistemology. Given all of these contributions we were sure she would have interesting things to say about philosophical naturalism.”
Helen Longino received her PhD in philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University in 1973. Her teaching and research interests are in philosophy of science, social epistemology, and feminist philosophy. In addition to Studying Human Behavior (University of Chicago Press, 2013), Longino is the author of Science as Social Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 1990), The Fate of Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 2001), and many articles in the philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and epistemology. Longino has taught at UC San Diego, Mills College, Rice University, the University of Minnesota, and is currently Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. Her research has been recognized by prizes such as the Robert K. Merton Professional Award (for The Fate of Knowledge), the Women’s Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association Prize (for Studying Human Behavior), and the degree of Doctor honoris causa, conferred by the Free University of Amsterdam in 2014. In 2016, she was awarded the degree of Doctor honoris causa by the University of Turku School of Economics and also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has served on committees of many professional associations, and recently served as president of the Philosophy of Science Association.
