Why and when did journalistic objectivity arise? -- What are the main objections to journalistic objectivity? -- Why is there so much dispute over 'the facts'? -- What are the grounds on which journalistic objectivity has been defended? -- Is objectivity a passive or active proc…
"Mark Sacks presents an innovative study of the nature and scope of objectivity. He argues for a conception of objectivity that draws on a central insight of transcendental idealism, while preserving a non-metaphysical orientation." "The first two parts of Objectivity and Insigh…
In Objectivity Is Not Neutrality, Haskell argues for a moderate historicism that acknowledges the force of perspective and reaffirms the pluralistic practices of a liberal democratic society - even while upholding time-honored distinctions between fact and fiction, scholarship a…
The concept of boundaries has become a central theme in the study of journalism. In recent years, the decline of legacy news organizations and the rise of new interactive media tools have thrust such questions as "what is journalism" and "who is a journalist" into the limelight.…
"Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new postscripts. Five of the essays are primarily about truth, meaning, and propositio…
Field presents a selection of 13 essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy. Five of the essays are about truth and meaning, five are about semantic indeterminacy, and three are about issues concerning objectivity.
"A friend reported that Wittgenstein considered taking a line from King Lear, "I'll teach you differences," as a motto for the Philosophical Investigations. The "differences" he had in mind, of course, were not of the etiquette of rank and station, which the Duke of Kent was kee…
The ideal that the goal of social research was the production of objective knowledge, and that this required a commitment to value neutrality, has been challenged in recent times. Here, Martyn Hammersley assesses the arguments.
"The aspiration to relate the past 'as it really happened' has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this remarkable history of the profession, Peter Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, cha…
The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth century. In this book, the author shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity was elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over…
