Perspective voyage · 1990
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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1990 CE · 1990
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