Overview
- Is the first Science and Technology Studies collection entirely devoted to this topic
- Contains original essays on objectivity by Peter Galison, Sandra Harding, Ian Hacking and Alison Wylie
- Offers a variety of highly relevant scientific and historical case studies
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 310)
Buy print copy
About this book
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Breast-Cancer Narratives
- Community-based Collaborative Research (CBPR)
- History of the Senses
- Ideals of Scientific Objectivity
- Journalistic Objectivity
- Physiology of the Sense Organs
- Political Dimensions of Objectivity
- Procedural Objectivity
- Pursuit of Objective Knowledge
- Scientific Objectivity
- Social Epistemology
- Strong Objectivity
- Universalist versus Particularist Philosophical Methodology
- Value-Neutral Science
Table of contents (11 chapters)
-
Positions on Objectivity in Contemporary Science and Technology Studies
-
Objectivity as a Topic in Historical Epistemology
-
Securing Objectivity in Scientific Communities
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Flavia Padovani is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Drexel University, Philadelphia. Her research addresses issues in both history and philosophy of science (mainly in the early twentieth century) and general philosophy of science. She is author of articles in journals and collections, and has co-edited several volumes in HPS, including Collected Works of Charles François Sturm (Birkhäuser 2008), Pour comprendre le XIXe: histoire et philosophie des sciences à la fin du siècle (Olschki 2007), and Louis Rougier: vie et œuvre d’un philosophe engagé, 2 vols. (Éditions Kimé 2006-2007).
Alan Richardson is Professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. A Past President of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), he works mainly on the history of philosophy of science in the twentieth century. He is author of Carnap’s Construction of the World (Cambridge UP, 1997) and has co-edited several volumes, including Origins of Logical Empiricism (U Minnesota P, 2003), Logical Empiricism in North America (U Minnesota P, 2007), and The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (Cambridge UP, 2010).
Jonathan Y. Tsou is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University. In 2008, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (CHSS); in 2008-2009, he was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He has a broad range of research interests in philosophy of science, including philosophy of psychiatry and history of twentieth century philosophy of science. His research has addressed topics such as natural kinds in psychiatry, the social feedback effects of humanscience classifications, a priori principles in science, and the nature of scientific change. His articles have appeared in journals such as Synthese, Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Perspectives on Science, and International Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Objectivity in Science
Book Subtitle: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies
Editors: Flavia Padovani, Alan Richardson, Jonathan Y. Tsou
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14349-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14348-4Published: 01 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38293-7Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14349-1Published: 23 March 2015
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 226
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Science, History of Science