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Methods Tutorial
SoSe 18: A history of objectivity
Susanne Schmidt
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What does it mean to be objective? And since when do we care? The idea of knowledge unmarked by prejudice, judgment, or wishing has a history. In their now classic Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence – and decline – of this epistemic ideal from the eighteenth century to the present day. The specificity of objectivity as a way of knowing the world is seen in the everyday practices and visual techniques which created and sustained scientific objectivity, while anxieties about subjectivity and the knowing self shed light on the ethos behind the epistemology. Ten years after publication, we will read and reconsider Objectivity. Please bring a physical copy; any edition of the Zone Books/MIT Press paperback will do. close
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Fri, 2018-04-20 14:00 - 16:00
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Fri, 2018-05-04 14:00 - 16:00
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Fri, 2018-06-29 14:00 - 16:00
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