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From Aperspectival Objectivity to Strong Objectivity: The Quest for Moral Objectivity

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Jennifer Tannoch-Bland
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Sandra Harding is working on the reconstruction of scientific objectivity. Lorraine Daston argues that objectivity is a concept that has historically evolved. Her account of the development of “aperspectival objectivity” provides an opportunity to see Harding's “strong objectivity” project as a stage in this evolution, to locate it in the history of migration of ideals from moral philosophy to natural science, and to support Harding's desire to retain something of the ontological significance of objectivity.

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Hypatia , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Winter 1997 , pp. 155 - 178
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Copyright © 1997 by Hypatia, Inc.

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