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Helen Longino

1990

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Does objectivity depend less on a neutral individual than on structures that expose assumptions to criticism and revision?

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Longino — Objectivity through communities where criticism can work

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Does objectivity depend less on a neutral individual than on structures that expose assumptions to criticism and revision?

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    Longino's contextual empiricism holds that data support hypotheses through background assumptions, so objectivity depends on public criticism capable of transforming those assumptions.

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    • Scientific Objectivity

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §4.3 Feminist and Social Epistemology, Longino on transformative criticism

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    Venues for criticism, shared standards, uptake of criticism, and tempered equality of intellectual authority are conditions for effective criticism, not mere diversity of opinion.

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    • Scientific Objectivity

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §4.3, criteria for transformative criticism

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  1. 1990

    Science as Social Knowledge locates objectivity in critical social structures rather than individual detachment.

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