Objectivity / Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison.

By:

Daston, Lorraine, 1951-

Contributor(s):

Galison, Peter, 1955-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, 2007.Description: 501 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:

9781890951788
9781890951795 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

121.4 DAS 23 006060

Online resources:

Table of contents.

Contents:

Prologue: Objectivity Shock -- I. Epistemologies of the Eye -- II. Truth-to-Nature -- III. Mechanical Objectivity -- IV. The Scientific Self -- V. Structural Objectivity -- VI. Trained Judgment -- VII. Representation to Presentation.

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, New Delhi	121.4 DAS 006060 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006060

Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-481) and index.

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.

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