2022
DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12885
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Objectivity in feminist epistemology

Abstract: It used to be that the touchstone of objectivity was the elimination of subjective features, like our values, biases, assumptions, and so on. Part of what motivates this narrow conception of objectivity is the thought that objective reality is the way that it is regardless of our relationship to it, and that our ability to accurately describe or depict this reality is distorted by this relationship. But what if that understanding is wrong, and removing these features takes us farther away from truth and knowle… Show more

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“…These terms do not have the same meaning as the more common "subjective" and "objective," which are impregnated with our everyday realism, whereas "subjectsided" and "object-sided" are neutral with respect to the spectrum of positions between all forms of realism and of anti-realism. 6 This explication of the core meaning of objectivity resonates well with what (Daston & Galison, 2007) preliminarily say about objectivity: "To be objective is to aspire to knowledge that bears no trace of the knower -knowledge unmarked by prejudice or skill, fantasy or judgment, wishing or striving," (p. 17) or with (Koskinen, 2020), p. 1189: "objective knowledge is knowledge about the object, untainted by distortions caused by our subjectivity" (similarly, but critically, also (Toole, 2022), p. 3). The negative meaning component of "objectivity," the absence of distorting contributions by epistemic subjects, does not make "objectivity" a fundamentally negative concept, however, as (John, 2021), p. 14 supposes.…”
Section: The Abstract Core Meaning Of "Objectivity"mentioning
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“…These terms do not have the same meaning as the more common "subjective" and "objective," which are impregnated with our everyday realism, whereas "subjectsided" and "object-sided" are neutral with respect to the spectrum of positions between all forms of realism and of anti-realism. 6 This explication of the core meaning of objectivity resonates well with what (Daston & Galison, 2007) preliminarily say about objectivity: "To be objective is to aspire to knowledge that bears no trace of the knower -knowledge unmarked by prejudice or skill, fantasy or judgment, wishing or striving," (p. 17) or with (Koskinen, 2020), p. 1189: "objective knowledge is knowledge about the object, untainted by distortions caused by our subjectivity" (similarly, but critically, also (Toole, 2022), p. 3). The negative meaning component of "objectivity," the absence of distorting contributions by epistemic subjects, does not make "objectivity" a fundamentally negative concept, however, as (John, 2021), p. 14 supposes.…”
Section: The Abstract Core Meaning Of "Objectivity"mentioning
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“…One may defend the correspondence theory of truth as an adequate definition of truth but insist on the coherence theory of truth as a criterion of truth; see, for instance, (Rescher, 1973), Chapters I and II. 16 Especially feminist epistemologists stress that the diversity of the respective teams is of utmost importance for the detection of group biases that may go unnoticed in homogenous groups; see, for instance, (Toole, 2022). 17 (van Dongen & Sikorski, 2021) still go further and claim that we need, in order to transform the said criteria into scientific practice, an even more concrete level on which (normative) rules for achieving objectivity are articulated.…”
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“…Its imperialistic nature can be found in how it upholds this as an ideal and neglects the possibility that there could be another equally valid approach that a knower can satisfy to possess knowledge. Toole Briana (2023) has recently challenged this isolative feature of classical epistemology. Robert Pasnau (2013) has also argued that we should neglect our hope to achieve epistemic ideals given our cognitive limitations.…”
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