The phrase "an object of science" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is studied or analyzed within the field of science.
Example: "The study of climate change has become an object of science that requires urgent attention from researchers worldwide."
Alternatives: "a subject of scientific inquiry" or "a focus of scientific study".
The human body became an object of quantitative science in the context of 19th century biometry and physical anthropology; metrics were applied to medicine and physiology as well as to all corners of science and society with avalanches of numerical data produced, including first censuses as large scale inventories of populations [ 16- 18].
Third and more constructively, cognitive science can be taken as an object of investigation in the philosophy of science, generating reflections on the methodology and presuppositions of the enterprise.
Wodeham, in turn, rejected both these positions and stated that the object of science was an actual state of affairs which could only be signified through a complex or a proposition.
On the "genetic" conception of scientific knowledge, in particular, the a priori synthetic activity of thought — the activity Kant himself had called "productive synthesis" — is understood as a temporal and historical developmental process in which the object of science is gradually and successively constituted as a never completed "X" towards which the developmental process is converging.
Porn is an object of lurid fascination in popular science, but based on my conversations with researchers, from their perspective it's a morass of uncertainty, flimsy claims, and, like this University of Nebraska Lincoln study, small sample sizes.
Relying on the concepts of formal mathematics and linguistics, Radcliffe-Brown and other structuralists tried to determine whether in cultural anthropology it was possible to reveal that which "suggests the character of a system" beyond empirical reality and which "alone is the true object of science" (Lévi-Strauss).
It is normativity per se, not prim prescriptivism in particular, that is incompatible with the scientific outlook (save as an object of investigation in the social sciences).
The former belonging to the Act, as the latter does to the Object of Science" (311, brackets added).
If the object of science is to grasp things as they are, independent of knowers, then it is important to draw a sharp distinction between the knower and the known.
The section occurs toward the end of the book, and begins: "It is the object of science to replace, or save experiences, by the reproduction and anticipation of facts in thought.
