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Objectivity (science)
About: Objectivity (science) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4311 publications have been published within this topic receiving 133738 citations. The topic is also known as: objectivity (science).
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1 Jul 2007
TL;DR: Barad, a theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism as mentioned in this paper, which is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics.
Abstract: Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as composed of separate natural and social realms, agential realism is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics. The starting point for Barad’s analysis is the philosophical framework of quantum physicist Niels Bohr. Barad extends and partially revises Bohr’s philosophical views in light of current scholarship in physics, science studies, and the philosophy of science as well as feminist, poststructuralist, and other critical social theories. In the process, she significantly reworks understandings of space, time, matter, causality, agency, subjectivity, and objectivity.
In an agential realist account, the world is made of entanglements of “social” and “natural” agencies, where the distinction between the two emerges out of specific intra-actions. Intra-activity is an inexhaustible dynamism that configures and reconfigures relations of space-time-matter. In explaining intra-activity, Barad reveals questions about how nature and culture interact and change over time to be fundamentally misguided. And she reframes understanding of the nature of scientific and political practices and their “interrelationship.” Thus she pays particular attention to the responsible practice of science, and she emphasizes changes in the understanding of political practices, critically reworking Judith Butler’s influential theory of performativity. Finally, Barad uses agential realism to produce a new interpretation of quantum physics, demonstrating that agential realism is more than a means of reflecting on science; it can be used to actually do science.
7,608 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that the alternative to relativism is partial, locatable, critical knowledges sustaining the possibility of webs of connections called solidarity in politics and shared conversations in epistemology.
Abstract: Recent social studies of science and technology, for example, have made available a very strong social constructionist argument for all forms of knowledge claims, most certainly and especially scientific ones. Feminist objectivity is about limited location and situated knowledge, not about transcendence and splitting of subject and object. It allows us to become answerable for what we learn how to see. The alternative to relativism is partial, locatable, critical knowledges sustaining the possibility of webs of connections called solidarity in politics and shared conversations in epistemology. “Passionate detachment” requires more than acknowledged and self-critical partiality. Positioning is, therefore, the key practice in grounding knowledge organized around the imagery of vision, and much Western scientific and philosophic discourse is organized in this way. Situated knowledges are about communities, not about isolated individuals. The only way to find a larger vision is to be somewhere in particular.
6,115 citations
TL;DR: Polanyi is at pains to expunge what he believes to be the false notion contained in the contemporary view of science which treats it as an object and basically impersonal discipline.
Abstract: The Study of Man. By Michael Polanyi. Price, $1.75. Pp. 102. University of Chicago Press, 5750 Ellis Ave., Chicago 37, 1959. One subtitle to Polanyi's challenging and fascinating book might be The Evolution and Natural History of Error , for Polanyi is at pains to expunge what he believes to be the false notion contained in the contemporary view of science which treats it as an object and basically impersonal discipline. According to Polanyi not only is this a radical and important error, but it is harmful to the objectives of science itself. Another subtitle could be Farewell to Detachment , for in place of cold objectivity he develops the idea that science is necessarily intensely personal. It is a human endeavor and human point of view which cannot be divorced from nor uprooted out of the human matrix from which it arises and in which it works. For a good while
4,277 citations
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1 Dec 1985
TL;DR: Kirk and Miller as mentioned in this paper discuss the scientific status of field data and provide a practical guide for participant-observation fieldwork, and present a process model for fieldwork.
Abstract: Author(s): Kirk, J; Miller, ML | Abstract: Vol I in the Qualitative Research Methods series, in 6 Chpts, with a series Introduction, an editors' Introduction, a a Glossary, discusses the scientific status of field data a offers a practical guide for participant-observation fieldwork. (1) Objectivity in Qualitative Research -- examines the concept of objectivity a outlines the plan of the book. (2) Reliability and Validity -- discusses the "positivist" view a analyzes the components of objectivity. (3) The Problem of Validity -- describes an approach to checking validity, illustrated by concrete examples from fieldwork in Peru a Sri Lanka. (4) Toward Theoretical Validity -- briefly reviews the work of nineteenth-century anthropologists, a of Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, a the Chicago School. (5) The Problem of Reliability -- offers illustrations of reliability checks, especially in the method of taking fieldnotes. (6) Ethnographic Decision Making: The Four Phases of Qualitative Research -- presents a process model for fieldwork. 2 Figures, 117 References.
2,984 citations
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