 Feminist empiricism constitutes another major influence on scientific pluralism (Anderson 2004; Longino 2002a; Kourany 2010; Solomon 2006b) that has developed in productive tension with standpoint theory (Intemann 2010). Rather than focusing on the knowledge of specific social groups such as women or indigenous communities, feminist empiricism departs from methodological considerations about the role of social values in scientific practice. Commonly contrasted with the ideal of value-free science (Elliott 2017), feminist empiricists have argued that social values cannot be eliminated from scientific practice including theory choice. For example, Longino (1990) influentially argued that the underdetermination of theories through empirical evidence requires social and other contextual values in theory choice.