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Objectivity / Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daston, Lorraine, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Objectivity.
- Physical Description:
- 501 pages, 38 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- The emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences, as revealed through images in scientific atlases--a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-481) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781890951788
- 1890951781
- OCLC:
- 144570876
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