Objectivity by Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison

501 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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-nat...

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