Objectivity
By: Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison.
Contributors: Gailson, Peter.
Publisher: Zone Books; Distributed by the MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
ISBN-13: 9781890951788
Subjects: Objectivity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: objectivity shock; title: Epistemologies of the eye blind sight; title: Images at work; title: Objectivity is new; title: Histories of the scientific self; title: Epistemic virtues; title: The argument; title: Objectivity in shirtsleeves; title: Truth-to-nature; title: Before objectivity; title: Taming nature's variability; title: The idea in the observation; title: Four-eyed sight; title: Truth-to-nature after objectivity; title: Mechanical objectivity; title: Seeing clear; title: Photography as science and art; title: Automatic images and blind sight; title: Drawing against photography; title: Self-surveillance; title: Ethics of objectivity; title: The scientific self; title: Why objectivity?; title: The scientific subject; title: Kant among the scientists; title: Scientific personae; title: Observation and attention; title: Knower and knowledge; title: Structural objectivity; title: Objectivity without images; title: The objective science of mind; title: The real, the objective, and the communicable; title: The color of subjectivity; title: What even a god could not say; title: Dreams of a neutral language; title: The cosmic community; title: Trained judgment; title: The uneasiness of mechanical reproduction; title: Accuracy should not be sacrificed to objectivity; title: The art of judgment; title: Practices and the scientific self; title: Representation to presentation; title: Seeing is being : truth, objectivity, and judgment; title: Seeing is making : nanofacture.