Rethinking objectivity

Introduction: Four Senses of Objectivity / Allan Megill 1How Not To Do the Sociology of Knowledge / Barry Barnes 21Baconian Facts, Academic Civility, and the Prehistory of Objectivity / Lorraine Daston 37Why Science Isn't Literature: The Importance of Differences / George Levine 65Ethnographic Objectivity Revisited: From Rigor to Vigor / Johannes Fabian 81Objectivity and the Mangle of Practice / Andy Pickering 109The Shapes of Objectivity: Siegfried Kracauer on Historiography and Photography / Dagmar Barnouw 127From Objectivity to Objectification: Feminist Objections / Mary E. Hawkesworth 151Who Cares? The Poverty of Objectivism for a Moral Epistemology / Lorraine Code 179Objectivity as Standardization: The Rhetoric of Impersonality in Measurement, Statisitics, and Cost-Benefit Analysis / Theodore M. Porter 197Accounting and Objectivity: The Invention of Calculating Selves and Calculable Spaces / Peter Miller 239The Mechanical Self and the Rhetoric of Objectivity / Kenneth J. Gergen 265The Unquiet Judge: Activism without Objectivism in Law and Politics / Barbara Herrnstein Smith 289The Paradox of Scientific Subjectivity / Evelyn Fox Keller 313Contributors 333Index 337