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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 scientif…
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 scientif…
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 scientif…
"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…
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…
"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…
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.…
Do moral questions have objective answers? This book explains and argues for relativism, emotivism and moral skepticism. For moral disagreements there are no correct answers ahead of time, except in relation to one or another moral framework.
"Based on a series of lectures given in 1983 by Dr. Leonard Peikoff, 'Understanding Objectivism' offers a deeper and more profound study of Ayn Rand's philosophy, and outlines a methodology of how to approach the study of Objectivism and apply its principles to one's life. For t…
