Objectivity by Lorraine Daston
A history of how scientists have defined and pursued impartial knowledge, tracking shifts in epistemic virtues from truth-to-nature through mechanical objectivity to trained judgment. Drawing on scientific atlases and visual practices, it shows how technologies like photography and the moral economies of laboratories reshaped what counted as a faithful representation. The study reveals objectivity as an evolving ideal, entwined with discipline-specific methods, instruments, and ethical self-restraint.
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- Published
- 2007
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 500-520
- Original Language
- English
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