Let’s Not Talk About Objectivity

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Volumn 310, Issue , 2015, Pages 19-33

  Hacking, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elevator words; Historical epistemology; Historical ontology; Ideals of scientific objectivity; Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison; Ordinary language philosophy; Universalist versus particularist philosophical methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101616306     PISSN: 00680346     EISSN: 22147942     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14349-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

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