OBJECTIVITY VERSUS TRUTH

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  • Lorraine Daston

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to clarify the difference between science practiced in a world divided up into the true and false and that pursued in a world divided up into objective and subjective. Althogh both truth and objectivity broaden into a spectrum of meanings, they do not coincide. This paper traces the fortunes of the rival epistemological virtues of truth and objectivity less through philosophical pronouncements than through thc quotidien practies of naturalists. The contrast between a regime a truth and one of objectivity is heavy with concrete consequences for everything from the choice of scientific images to the formation of scientific personae.

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Daston, L. (2001). OBJECTIVITY VERSUS TRUTH. Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofia, (24), 11–22. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/daimon/article/view/14521
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