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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Title:
</span></b>Behavioral Concepts and the Sciences of Human Behavior<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Speaker:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Helen Longino, Ph.D., Stanford University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Date</span></b><span style="color:black">: Friday, April 21, 2017 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Time</span></b><span style="color:black">: 11:00 am to 12:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Cost</span></b><span style="color:black">: FREE and open to the public<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Location</span></b><span style="color:black">: Philip G Hoffmann Hall, Room 232 (PGH-232) Main Campus, University of Houston<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Contact and Phone Number</span></b><span style="color:black">: Ioannis Pavlidis, Ph.D., 713-743-0101<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Link: </span></b><a href="http://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Seminars/Helen-Longino.php">http://www.uh.edu/ethicsinscience/Seminars/Helen-Longino.php</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Summary</span></b><span style="color:black">: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What do researchers measure when measuring behavior? This talk explores
the ways behavioral concepts are operationalized/defined for scientific study, the ways in which social preconceptions and values still permeate such concepts, and some of the social consequences of the particular operationalizations adopted. The focus will
be on concepts of aggression and of sexuality.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(75, 75, 75); "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="color:black">Biography</span></b><span style="color:black">:
</span> Helen Longino received her PhD in Philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University in 1973. Her teaching and research interests are in philosophy of science, social epistemology, and feminist philosophy. She is particularly interested in the relations between
scientific inquiry and its social, cultural, and economic contexts. In addition to Studying Human Behavior (University of Chicago Press, 2013), Longino is the author of Science As Social Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 1990), The Fate of Knowledge (Princeton
University Press, 2001), many articles in the philosophy of science, feminist philosophy and epistemology, and co-editor of Scientific Pluralism (University of Minnesota Press, 2007). Longino has taught at UC San Diego, Mills College, Rice University, the
University of Minnesota, and is currently Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the McKnight Foundation and other centers,
and been recognized by prizes such as the Robert K Merton Professional Award (for The Fate of Knowledge), the Women’s Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association Prize (for Studying Human Behavior), and the degree of Doctor honoris causa, conferred by
the Free University of Amsterdam in 2014. In 2016, she was awarded the degree of Doctor honoris causa by the University of Turku School of Economics and also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has served on committees of many professional
associations, and most recently served as President of the Philosophy of Science Association.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></span><style><!--
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