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Objective Visions

Historians track the rise and times of scientific objectivity

Notions of scientific objectivity have changed over time and respond to social influences within and outside specific disciplines.

References:

Daston, L. 1998. Fear and loathing of the imagination in science. Dædalus 127(Winter):73.

Daston, L., and P.L. Galison. 1992. The image of objectivity. Representations 40(Fall):81.

Galison, P.L. 1995. Judgment against objectivity. Histories of Science, Histories of Art Workshop. November. Boston.

Porter, T.M. 1995. Trust in Numbers. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Further Readings:

1992. The social history of objectivity. Social Studies of Science 22(November).

Bower, B. 1997. Null science. Science News 151(June 7):356.

Sources:

Lorraine Daston
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Wilhelmstr. 44
D-10117 Berlin
Germany

Peter L. Galison
Harvard University
Department of the History of Science
Science Center 235
Cambridge, MA 02138

Theodore M. Porter
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of History
Los Angeles, CA 90024

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 23, December 5, 1998, p. 360. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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