Helen Longino's Feminism Philosophy Of Science

The feminism has opened a brand-new cultural angle of view by its unique sex attention in the scientific domain at the 20th century 60's and 70's. This cultural trend take three different schools as its representative. They are feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint and feminist postmodernism. Helen Langino is an American contemporary feminist scholar and a famous philosopher of science, She also is an outstanding representative personage in the feminist empiricism. Her ideas has spread broad in the European and American countries, And her thought has represented a way of empiricism philosophy of Western feminism.This article aims to present and comment on her three idea of feminism philosophy of science. Expecting to be helpful for our research on feminism philosophy of science. The thought of context empiricism has expounded the relations between evidence, hypothesis and background belief in scientific inquire. The objectivity of science has disintegrated and anew annotated the tradition objectivity, And also has proposed new standard of critical communities. The third thought is based on the front theories, Science as a society knowledge is her final conclusion. This both as the way which science creates and its use value. Finally, Reflecting on these philosophy thought, I explain its theory contribution, significance and limitation.