Objectivity

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Daston and Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid 19th century sciences and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgement. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images.

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Full title :Objectivity / Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison.

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Publication Date:2007.

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Publisher(s):Distributed by the MIT Press, Zone Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (501 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1942130619, 9781942130611
oclc:ocn989690994
LC Classification:BD220
Dewey Decimal:121/.4

Prologue: objectivity shock -- Epistemologies of the eye -- Blind sight -- Collective empiricism -- Objectivity is new -- Histories of the scientific self -- Epistemic virtues -- The argument -- Objectivity in shirtsleeves -- Truth-to-nature -- Before objectivity -- Taming nature's variability -- The idea in the observation -- Four-eyed sight -- Drawing from nature -- Truth-to-nature after objectivity -- Mechanical objectivity -- Seeing clear -- Photography as science and art -- Automatic images and blind sight -- Drawing against photography -- Self-surveillance -- Ethics of objectivity -- The scientific self -- Why objectivity? -- The scientific subject -- Kant among the scientists -- Scientific personas -- Observation and attention -- Knower and knowledge -- Structural objectivity -- Objectivity without images -- The objective science of mind -- The real, the objective, and the communicable -- The color of subjectivity -- What even a god could not say -- Dreams of a neutral language -- The cosmic community -- Trained judgment -- The uneasiness of mechanical reproduction -- Accuracy should not be sacrificed to objectivity -- The art of judgment -- Practices and the scientific sel…

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acquisition de connaissances Art, 2008 Bildliche Darstellung Communication visuelle illustration Information scientifique Judgment Jugement Naturwissenschaften Objectivité Objectiviteit Objectivity Objektivität perception PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology Sciences Wissenschaft