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4/9/01

SLU LECTURER TO DISCUSS 'FOLK PSYCHOLOGY'

CANTON -- Helen Longino, professor of philosophy and women's 
studies at the University of Minnesota, will give the second 
2001 Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture at St. Lawrence 
University, on the topic "Individualism and Folk Psychology in 
the Scientific Study of Aggression." The lecture will be on 
Thursday, April 19, at 4 p.m. in Hepburn Auditorium and is open 
to the public, free of charge.
	The author of Science as Social Knowledge and The Fate of 
Knowledge, Longino is the co-editor of Women, Gender and Science; 
Gender and Scientific Authority and Competition: A Feminist Taboo?.
	Longino has helped establish and/or stabilize women's studies 
programs at several of the institutions at which she has taught. 
As chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on 
the Status of Women in the Profession, she helped draw attention to 
continuing subtle forms of discrimination against women. In addition 
to her work in philosophy of science, she has published on social 
issues such as education, competition and pornography.

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