Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. She is the coauthor of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 and the editor of Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (both Zone Books).
Peter Galison is Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. He is the author of Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time, How Experiments End, and Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics, among other books, and coeditor (with Emily Thompson) of The Architecture of Science (MIT Press, 1999).
Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences—and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images.
From the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, the images that reveal the deepest commitments of the empirical sciences—from anatomy to crystallography—are those featured in scientific atlases, the compendia that teach practitioners what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Galison and Daston use atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas maker idealizes an image to capture the essentials in the name of truth-to-nature or refuses to erase even the most incidental detail in the name of objectivity or highlights patterns in the name of trained judgment is a decision enforced by an ethos as well as by an epistemology.
As Daston and Galison argue, atlases shape the subjects as well as the objects of science. To pursue objectivity—or truth-to-nature or trained judgment—is simultaneously to cultivate a distinctive scientific self wherein knowing and knower converge. Moreover, the very point at which they visibly converge is in the very act of seeing not as a separate individual but as a member of a particular scientific community. Embedded in the atlas image, therefore, are the traces of consequential choices about knowledge, persona, and collective sight. Objectivity is a book addressed to anyone interested in the elusive and crucial notion of objectivity—and in what it means to peer into the world scientifically.
發表於2025-01-22
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選題真是好。Mechanical Objectivity廣為傳頌。讓我睏惑的是通過Mechanical Objectivity這個概念他們把照相技術與印刻技術在本體上等同瞭,讓人不禁要問難道真的是這樣嗎?論證上並非滴水不漏,推薦兩篇文章,可以很好的豐富本書的觀點。Joel Snyder的Visualization and Visibility和Peter Geimer的Inadverdent Images. 前者講the supersensible和Subjectivity, 後者講Photographic accidents.
評分十分精彩的關於truth-to-nature vs.mechanical objectivity的討論。我是真心喜歡Daston的書
評分邏輯清晰、材料豐富、文筆流暢,各個方麵都讓人感覺望塵莫及。這種宏大視角不僅考驗作者對於方法論和寫作結構的把握,也需要大量的人力物力。據說Daston和Galison當時招瞭n多個RA跑遍歐洲給他們找材料,宏大史觀的敘述需要同樣宏大的資金支持。
評分結構清晰,邏輯通順,文風簡潔。太好看瞭。從atlas image入手研究認識型,可以說是給研究找到瞭一個豐富、恰當又便於理解的anchor,truth-to-nature, mechanic objectivity and trained judgment的三種再現模型的論述極其精彩。其理論基礎明顯由Foucault、Crary和Haraway發展而來,但是比以上三人都…簡潔清晰通順。
評分hist. of science & intellectual history. 很有幫助,可以對著福柯的《詞與物》一起讀。
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