Objectivity in Science New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Padovani, Flavia (Editor), Richardson, Alan (Editor), Tsou, Jonathan Y. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 310
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Science.

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 fe...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Jonathan Y. Tsou, Alan Richardson and Flavia Padovani
• PART I: POSITIONS ON OBJECTIVITY IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
• Chapter 1: Let’s Not Talk about Objectivity; Ian Hacking
• Chapter 2: Objectivity for Sciences from Below; Sandra Harding
• Chapter 3: The Journalist, the Scientist, and Objectivity; Peter Galison
• PART II: OBJECTIVITY AS A TOPIC IN HISTORICAL EPISTEMOLOGY
• Chapter 4: The Ethos of Critique in German Idealism; Joan Steigerwald
• Chapter 5: The Physiology of the Sense Organs and Early Neo-Kantian Conceptions of Objectivity: Helmholtz, Lange, Liebmann; Scott Edgar
• Chapter 6: Seeing and Hearing: Charcot, Freud and the Objectivity of Hysteria; Paolo Savoia
• Chapter 7: Objectivities in Print; Alex Csiszar
• PART III: SECURING OBJECTIVITY IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND COMMUNITIES
• Chapter 8: Objectivity, Intellectual Virtue, and Community; Moira Howes
• Chapter 9: A Plurality of Pluralisms: Collaborative Practice in Archaeology; Alison Wylie
• Chapter 11: The View from Here and There: Objectivity and the Rhetoric of Breast Cancer; Judy Segal.