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Objectivity

Lorraine Daston

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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 self
Representation to presentation
Seeing is being : truth, objectivity, and judgment
Seeing is making : nanofacture
Right depiction.

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Objectivity by Lorraine Daston. ISBN 9781890951788. Published by Zone in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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