Article ID: CBB000410797

The Scope and Limits of Scientific Objectivity (2004)

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The aim of this paper is twofold: first to sketch a framework for classifying a wide range of conceptions of scientific objectivity and second to present and defend a conception of scientific objectivity that fills a neglected niche in the resulting hierarchy of viewpoints. Roughly speaking, the proposed ideal of scientific objectivity is effectiveness in the informal but technical sense of an effective method. Science progresses when higher levels of communicative discourse are reached by transforming subjective judgments regarding the generation and reduction of data or the testing of theories into objective decision procedures that are automatic or mechanical. (from the abstract)

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Authors & Contributors
Dupré, John
Zanghi, Nino
Tumulka, Roderich
Tontini, Andrea
Taylor, James David
Stenmark, Mikael
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Limits of science
Philosophy
Historiography
Definition of human; human nature
Neurosciences
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Early modern
20th century, early
19th century
18th century
Places
United States
Institutions
Vienna Circle
Berliner Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche Philosophie
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