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October 2007
6 x 9, 500 pp., 140 illus., 32 color
$38.95/£28.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-78-1
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-78-8

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Objectivity
Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison

Preface9
Prologue: Objectivity Shock11
IEPISTEMOLOGIES OF THE EYE17
Blind Sight17
Collective Empiricism19
Objectivity is New27
Histories of the Scientific Self35
Epistemic Virtues39
The Argument42
Objectivity in Shirtsleeves51
IITRUTH-TO-NATURE55
Before Objectivity55
Taming Nature's Variability63
The Idea in the Observation69
Four-Eyed Sight84
Drawing from Nature98
Truth-to-Nature after Objectivity105
IIIMECHANICAL OBJECTIVITY115
Seeing Clear115
Photography as Science and Art125
Automatic Images and Blind Sight138
Drawing Against Photography161
Self-Surveillance174
Ethics of Objectivity183
IVTHE SCIENTIFIC SELF191
Why Objectivity?191
The Scientific Subject198
Kant Among the Scientists205
Scientific Personas216
Observation and Attention234
Knower and Knowledge246
VSTRUCTURAL OBJECTIVITY253
Objectivity Without Images253
The Objective Science of Mind262
The Real, the Objective, and the Communicable265
The Color of Subjectivity273
What Even God Could Not Say283
Dreams of a Neutral Language289
The Cosmic Community297
VITRAINED JUDGMENT309
The Uneasiness of Mechanical Reproduction309
Accuracy Should Not Be Sacrificed to Objectivity321
The Art of Judgment346
Practices of the Scientific Self357
VIIREPRESENTATION TO PRESENTATION363
Seeing Is Being: Truth, Objectivity, and Judgment363
Seeing Is Making: Nanofacture382
Right Depiction412
Acknowledgments417
Notes419
Index483
  
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