MIT Professor Emerita Evelyn Fox Keller, a distinguished and groundbreaking philosopher and historian of science, has died at age 87. Keller gained acclaim for her powerful critique of the scientific establishment’s conception of objectivity, which she found lacking in its own terms and heavily laden with gendered assumptions. Her work drove many scholars toward a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of the subjective factors and socially driven modes of thought that can shape scientific theories and hypotheses. A trained physicist who conducted academic research in biology and then focused on…
