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Objectivity of science Science seeks the objective truth.
At no point does she deny the objectivity of science or the positive uses to which it has been put.
Now Dr. Arnold M. Ludwig, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Kentucky, has come along with his "Political Greatness Scale" -- the latest in a long line of scholarly attempts to measure political leadership with the cool objectivity of science.
Re "Researchers Fail to Reveal Full Drug Pay" (front page, June 8) and "Hidden Drug Payments at Harvard" (editorial, June 10): The first obligations of those who conduct lifesaving research at American medical schools, teaching hospitals and research universities are to protect the safety of patients and assure the integrity and objectivity of science.
Instead, it asserts, "The objectivity of science is particularly effective in ferreting out the relative merits of alternative policies".
For example, Evelyn Fox Keller (1995) observes that feminist scholars first questioned the objectivity of science, a question later appropriated by mainstream historians of science.
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When a Chinese teacher criticizes the objectivity aspect of science, it might not mean that his/her understanding is the same as that of a western teacher.
The picture suggested there of its philosophy by him was one of British empiricism topped up with formal logic (Hume plus Tractatus); by contrast, the strong Neo-Kantian and post-Kantian tendencies concerned with establishing the objectivity claim of science find no mention.
Windsor said the "key is the objectivity of the science".
The gap between the objectivity of material science (the electromagnetic waves) and the subjectivity of human experience (the qualia) has led some philosophers to conclude that this chasm cannot be bridged by any materialist explanation.
Thus, the empirical objectivity of a science relies on a high degree of objectivity or intersubjective agreement among scientists on the numerical values of likelihoods.
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