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Born
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Education
She received her English Literature degree from Barnard College. She also earned her Masters in philosophy from the University of Sussex. She earned her PhD from Johns Hopkins University. -
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Early Career
She taught at the University of California, San Diego, Mills College, Rice University, and the University of Minnesota before joining the philosophy department of Standford University. -
Her First Book
She wrote the book Science as Social Knowledge in 1990. She argues for the relevance of social values to the justification of scientific knowledge. She is essentially saying that observation and data taken from scientists alone should not serve as evidence for or against scientific theories. (This is very similar to what we have been learning about in class.) -
Lecture of Perspectives and Pluralities
Here is a video of her explaining the differences in understanding scientific knowledge.
