Main entry:

Daston, Lorraine, 1951- author.

Title & Author:

Objectivity / Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books, 2010.
©2007

Description:

501 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface to the paperback edition -- Preface to the first edition -- 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.

Summary:

Daston and Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid 19th century sciences and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgement. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images.

ISBN:

9781890951795 (pbk.)
189095179X (pbk.)

Subject:

Objectivity.
Judgment.
Perception.
Objectivité.
Jugement.

Added entries:

Galison, Peter, 1955- author.
Galison, Peter, 1955-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270269
Call No.: BD220 .D37 2010
Status: Available