Objectivity

Item Type Book Author Lorraine Daston Author Peter Galison Edition First paperback edition Place New York, NY Publisher Zone Books ISBN 978-1-890951-79-5 Date 2010 Library Catalog K10plus ISBN Language eng Abstract Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Prologue: Objectivity Shock -- I. Epistemologies of the Eye -- Blind Sight -- Collective Empiricism -- Objectivity Is New -- Histories of the Scientific Self -- Epistemic Virtues -- The Argument -- Objectivity in Shirtsleeves -- II. 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 -- III. Mechanical Objectivity -- Seeing Clear -- Photography as Science and Art -- Automatic Images and Blind Sight -- Drawing Against Photography -- Self-Surveillance -- Ethics of Objectivity -- IV. The Scientific Self -- Why Objectivity? -- The Scientific Subject -- Kant Among the Scientists -- Scientific Personas -- Observation and Attention -- Knower and Knowledge -- V. 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 -- VI. Trained Judgment -- The Uneasiness of Mechanical Reproduction -- Accuracy Should Not Be Sacrificed to Objectivity -- The Art of Judgment -- Practices and the Scientific Self -- VII. Representation to Presentation -- Seeing Is Being: Truth, Objectivity, and Judgment -- Seeing Is Making: Nanofacture -- Right Depiction -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index # of Pages 1