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Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research
Sandra Harding
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Paperback. 9780226241364 Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be used to suppress otherwise valid dissenting positions. Objectivity is used sometimes to advance democratic agendas, at other times to block them; sometimes for increasing the growth of knowledge, at others to resist it. Sandra Harding is not ready to throw out objectivity quite yet. For all of its problems, she contends that objectivity is too powerful a concept simply to abandon. In ... Read more
Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be used to suppress otherwise valid dissenting positions. Objectivity is used sometimes to advance democratic agendas, at other times to block them; sometimes for increasing the growth of knowledge, at others to resist it. Sandra Harding is not ready to throw out objectivity quite yet. For all of its problems, she contends that objectivity is too powerful a concept simply to abandon. In ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
377g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226241364
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V9780226241364
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About Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding is Distinguished Professor of Education and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Distinguished Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. She is the editor of The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader and the author of Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities.
Reviews for Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research
"The way the term 'objective' has been wielded in science and in everday life, to police the academy as well as public testimony, has itself not been terribly objective. Harding provides here an informative overview of the real-world applications of objectivity, using some fascinating case studies. She looks closely at the debates about the value of diversity in relation to ... Read more