Objectivity

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:ObjectivityISBN13:9781890951795ISBN10:189095179XAuthor:Daston, Lorraine (Author), Galison, Peter (Author)Description: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 Objectivity Has A History, And It Is Full Of Surprises In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston And Peter Galison Chart The Emergence Of Objectivity In The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Sciences--And Show How The Concept Differs From Its Alternatives, Truth-To-Nature And Trained Judgment This Is A Story Of Lofty Epistemic Ideals Fused With Workaday Practices In The Making Of Scientific Images From The Eighteenth Through The Early Twenty-First Centuries, The Images That Reveal The Deepest Commitments Of The Empirical Sciences--From Anatomy To Crystallography--Are Those Featured In Scientific Atlases, The Compendia That Teach Practitioners What Is Worth Looking At And How To Look At It Galison And Daston Use Atlas Images To Uncover A Hidden History Of Scientific Objectivity And Its Rivals Whether An Atlas Maker Idealizes An Image To Capture The Essentials In The Name Of Truth-To-Nature Or Refuses To Erase Even The Most Incidental Detail In The Name Of Objectivity Or Highlights Patterns In The Name Of Trained Judgment Is A Decision Enforced By An Ethos As Well As By An Epistemology As Daston And Galison Argue, Atlases Shape The Subjects As Well As The Objects Of Science To Pursue Objectivity--Or Truth-To-Nature Or Trained Judgment--Is Simultaneously To Cultivate A Distinctive Scientific Self Wherein Knowing And Knower Converge Moreover, The Very Point At Which They Visibly Converge Is In The Very Act Of Seeing Not As A Separate Individual But As A Member Of A Particular Scientific Community Embedded In The Atlas Image, Therefore, Are The Traces Of Consequential Choices About Knowledge, Persona, And Collective Sight Objectivity Is A Book Addressed To Anyone Interested In The Elusive And Crucial Notion Of Objectivity--And In What It Means To Peer Into The World Scientifically Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:ZONE BOOKSPublication Date:2010-11-05Weight:1.92 lbsDimensions:1.6'' H x 8.94'' L x 6.1'' WNumber of Pages:501Language:English

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