Objectivity
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 504
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Zone Books
- EAN: 9781890951795
- Utgivelsesår: 2010
- Bidragsyter: Daston, Lorraine (Max Planck Institute for History of Science); Galison, Peter (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University)
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 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 of a discipline what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Atlas images define the working objects of the sciences of the eye: snowflakes, galaxies, skeletons, even elementary particles.
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 c