Helen E. Longino (2002), The Fate of Knowledge, Princeton: Princeton University Press — DOI-10.1515/9780691187013
Key takeaways
Registered, not read. Longino’s SEP entry (LIT-725), §5, says that “in her 2002, Longino argues that the cognitive processes of science, such as observation and reasoning, are themselves social processes. Thus the interactions subject to community norms extend not only to discussion of assumptions in finished research, but to the constructive processes of research as well.” The entry calls the resulting position critical contextual empiricism, citing this book and LIT-717 together.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-05 at the owner’s request. The claim the essay leans on, that institutional conditions of criticism “can contribute to the epistemic capacities of the collective”, is closest to this book’s thesis rather than to the 1990 one. That is a reason to read this one first if a copy is supplied. The account is THEORY-151.