Objectivity in science : new perspectives from science and technology studies

✍ Scribed by Padovani, Flavia; Richardson, Alan W.; Tsou, Jonathan Y

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Series: Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science 310
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This highly multidisciplinary collection discusses an increasingly important topic among scholars in science and technology studies: objectivity in science. It features eleven essays on scientific objectivity from a variety of perspectives, including philosophy of science, history of science, and feminist philosophy. Topics addressed in the book include the nature and value of scientific objectivity, the history of objectivity, and objectivity in scientific journals and communities. Taken individually, the essays supply new methodological tools for theorizing what is valuable in the pursuit of objective knowledge and for investigating its history. The essays offer many starting points, while suggesting new avenues of research. Taken collectively, the essays exemplify the very virtues of objectivity that they theorize―in reading them together, the reader can sense various anxieties about the dangerously subjective in our age and locate commonalities of concern as well as differences of approach. As a result, the volume offers an expansive vision of a research community seeking a communal understanding of its own methods and its own epistemic anxieties, struggling to enunciate the key problems of knowledge of our time and offer insight into how to overcome them

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction: Objectivity in Science....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Let’s Not Talk About Objectivity....Pages 19-33
Objectivity for Sciences from Below....Pages 35-55
The Journalist, the Scientist, and Objectivity....Pages 57-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
The Ethos of Critique in German Idealism....Pages 79-99
The Physiology of the Sense Organs and Early Neo-Kantian Conceptions of Objectivity: Helmholtz, Lange, Liebmann....Pages 101-122
Seeing and Hearing: Charcot, Freud and the Objectivity of Hysteria....Pages 123-144
Objectivities in Print....Pages 145-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Objectivity, Intellectual Virtue, and Community....Pages 173-188
A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology....Pages 189-210
The View from Here and There: Objectivity and the Rhetoric of Breast Cancer....Pages 211-226

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Science; History of Science