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"In the 70s and 80s Kuhn and the new sociology of science seriously put into question our received notions of scientific objectivity. In "Rethinking Objectivity" leading scholars in several disciplines confront the issue head on, and those who have worked empirically on questions of objectivity for years contribute their results. An exciting book that fills a gap in the study of science!"--Karin Knorr-Cetina, Universitat Bielefeld
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Introduction: Four Senses of Objectivity / Allan Megill 1
How Not To Do the Sociology of Knowledge / Barry Barnes 21
Baconian Facts, Academic Civility, and the Prehistory of Objectivity / Lorraine Daston 37
Why Science Isn't Literature: The Importance of Differences / George Levine 65
Ethnographic Objectivity Revisited: From Rigor to Vigor / Johannes Fabian 81
Objectivity and the Mangle of Practice / Andy Pickering 109
The Shapes of Objectivity: Siegfried Kracauer on Historiography and Photography / Dagmar Barnouw 127
From Objectivity to Objectification: Feminist Objections / Mary E. Hawkesworth 151
Who Cares? The Poverty of Objectivism for a Moral Epistemology / Lorraine Code 179
Objectivity as Standardization: The Rhetoric of Impersonality in Measurement, Statisitics, and Cost-Benefit Analysis / Theodore M. Porter 197
Accounting and Objectivity: The Invention of Calculating Selves and Calculable Spaces / Peter Miller 239
The Mechanical Self and the Rhetoric of Objectivity / Kenneth J. Gergen 265
The Unquiet Judge: Activism without Objectivism in Law and Politics / Barbara Herrnstein Smith 289
The Paradox of Scientific Subjectivity / Evelyn Fox Keller 313
Contributors 333
Index 337
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Allan Megill
