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SUMMARY:Objectivity: A Discussion
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Tuesday\, 21 January 2025</strong><br><strong>9.30 am ET / 2.30 pm GMT / 8 pm IST</strong><br><strong>Register:&nbsp\;</strong><strong>https://forms.gle/HqoWwUCHZQzwtgzw8</strong></p>\n<p>If you asked a botanist in the eighteenth century to draw you a rose\, he would have produced a flawless illustration of the flower. This perfect specimen would combine petals\, pistils\, stamens and stem in a way no single rose could replicate. Nor is the botanist interested in sketching a particular rose\; he is in the business of making idealized images.</p>\n<p>The same botanist in the nineteenth century would\, however\, shy away from this and instead offer you something more &lsquo\;objective&rsquo\;&mdash\;a set of photographs of roses\, however imperfect\, irregular and different from one another they may be. The task of determining what was perfect&mdash\;or even if such a concept applied&mdash\;would be left to you\, the viewer.</p>\n<p>It is in this context\, argues Lorraine Daston\, that the ideal of objectivity emerges: a weariness towards generalizations\, a reluctance to idealize nature\, a commitment to represent the world <em>as it is</em>.</p>\n<p>To be objective\, then\, is not necessarily to be scientific\, accurate\, precise or certain. Rather\, objectivity\, Daston argues\, is one among many epistemic virtues that scientists&mdash\;natural and social&mdash\;strive to balance. Objectivity\, both the word and the ideal\, is a recent invention (or discovery)\, some two hundred years old. And yet it feels as though it has always been with us: in the minds of Thucydides and Descartes\, in the methods of Newton and Boyle and in the sketches of Masaccio and Brunelleschi.</p>\n<p>To discuss the history of objectivity\, we&rsquo\;re honoured to welcome <strong>Lorraine Daston</strong>\, director emerita at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science\, Berlin\, and visiting professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.</p>
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