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@book{citeulike:3334394, abstract = {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.}, author = {Daston, Lorraine and Galison, Peter}, citeulike-article-id = {3334394}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/1890951781}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike01-21&path=ASIN/1890951781}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike06-21&path=ASIN/1890951781}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.amazon.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/1890951781}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1890951781/citeulike00-21}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/1890951781}, citeulike-linkout-6 = {http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/1890951781}, citeulike-linkout-7 = {http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1890951781}, citeulike-linkout-8 = {http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=1890951781&index=books&linkCode=qs}, citeulike-linkout-9 = {http://www.librarything.com/isbn/1890951781}, day = {31}, edition = {1}, howpublished = {Hardcover}, isbn = {1890951781}, keywords = {17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, objectivity, philosophy, science-studies}, month = {October}, posted-at = {2008-11-17 18:22:10}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Zone Books}, title = {Objectivity}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike07-20&path=ASIN/1890951781}, year = {2007} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:3334394 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3334394 N2 - 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. SN - 1890951781 TI - Objectivity PB - Zone Books KW - 17th KW - 18th KW - 19th KW - 20th KW - objectivity KW - philosophy KW - science-studies AU - Daston, Lorraine AU - Galison, Peter PY - 2007/10/31/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/1890951781 ER -