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|Summary='''Helen Longino''' (Born July 13, 1944) is an American philosopher of science known for her contributions on the role of values in science, role of social interaction in scientific objectivity and social epistemology. She is an important figure in the feminist epistemology and social epistemology. Longino emphasized the “usefulness” of non-epistemic values in scientific practice. She created an influential social account of knowledge. According to Longino, scientific objectivity and knowledge is a property of the community instead of individual scientists.

|Historical Context=Until 1960’s philosophy of science was dominated by '''normative methodology''' and until 1980’s individuals were in the center of philosophy of science. The standard accounts of science were value free. Normative methodologists were interested in trying to justify science by coming with a prescriptive methodology which scientists should adhere to. Philosophers of science of the time were concerned with how scientists ought to work. Until Popper, who emphasized the role of other scientists in the acquisition of scientific knowledge, no significant weight was given to the role of other people in the daily working of science. [[CiteRef::Longino (2015)]]