Helen Longino

Helen Longino is writing a short book on the concept of interaction in science and philosophy. She focuses on both theory and method, asking how interaction is conceived in the scientific and philosophical contexts in which it is invoked and how methodologies facilitate or constrain its identification. She will argue that in many cases, interaction emerges as a phenomenon in and of itself, requiring that we reorient our ontology to include interactions as well as the objects that interact.