Imagination and the Experience of Moral Objectivity
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DOI: 10.1007/s10677-021-10234-z
Abstract: Different notions of objectivity support different notions of what is required for a moral value or obligation to be experienced as objective. If the objectivity of a property (moral or otherwise) requires that it can… read more here.
Keywords: objectivity; imagination experience; experience moral; moral objectivity ... See more keywords
Objectivity in contexts: withholding epistemic judgement as a strategy for mitigating collective bias
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02645-9
Abstract: In this paper I discuss and develop the risk account of scientific objectivity, which I have recently introduced, contrasting it to some alternatives. I then use the account in order to analyse a practice that… read more here.
Keywords: collective bias; withholding epistemic; strategy; objectivity ... See more keywords
Objectivity as Independence
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DOI: 10.1017/epi.2021.5
Abstract: Building on Nozick's invariantism about objectivity, I propose to define scientific objectivity in terms of counterfactual independence. I will argue that such a counterfactual independence account is (a) able to overcome the decisive shortcomings of… read more here.
Keywords: independence; objectivity; objectivity independence;
Activism and Objectivity in Political Research
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592723000518
Abstract: There are two opposed views on the proper relationship between academic research and political activism. The first argues that academics who study politics must remain objective, hence precluding activism. The second argues that academics can… read more here.
Keywords: activism objectivity; form objectivity; activism; objectivity ... See more keywords
The meaning of scientific objectivity and subjectivity: From the perspective of methodologists.
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DOI: 10.1037/met0000363
Abstract: Given the challenges to the notion of objectivity posed by social psychological research on investigator effects, constructivist and critical epistemological perspectives, and the introduction of qualitative research methods in psychology, the investigators examined how leading… read more here.
Keywords: epistemological perspectives; objectivity subjectivity; meaning scientific; objectivity ... See more keywords
The objectivity illusion and voter polarization in the 2016 presidential election
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1912301117
Abstract: Significance Political polarization increasingly threatens democratic institutions. The belief that “my side” sees the world objectively while the “other side” sees it through the lens of its biases contributes to this political polarization and accompanying… read more here.
Keywords: objectivity illusion; polarization; objectivity; 2016 presidential ... See more keywords
Max Weber’s ‘Inconvenient Facts’ and Contemporary Studies of Public Science Communication
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DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2019.1695013
Abstract: ABSTRACT In his text ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf’, Max Weber associates the understanding of science as a vocation with the scientist’s ability to present the audience with ‘inconvenient facts’. He argues that this presentation provides a… read more here.
Keywords: inconvenient facts; communication; science; science communication ... See more keywords
Data Ops, Objectivity, and Outsiders: Journalistic Coverage of Data Campaigning
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DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2020.1723751
Abstract: ABSTRACT The last decade has seen the meteoric rise of data campaigning as a central concern of political campaigns. This article offers insight into how journalists and political professionals construct practices of data campaigning as… read more here.
Keywords: data campaigning; journalistic coverage; coverage; data ops ... See more keywords
Introduction: studying political violence while indicted – against objectivity and detachment
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DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2019.1599167
Abstract: ABSTRACT Knowledge construction should seek to embrace empiricism – the deriving of knowledge from data and experience – while not confusing this with a false notion of objectivity. As a truly objective approach is not… read more here.
Keywords: political violence; knowledge; studying political; introduction studying ... See more keywords
Glimpse of objectivity in bipartite systems for nonentangling pure dephasing evolutions
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DOI: 10.1103/physreva.101.052120
Abstract: We study separable system-environment evolutions of pure dephasing type in the context of objectivity and find that it can lead to the natural emergence of Spectrum Broadcast Structure (SBS) states at discrete instances of time.… read more here.
Keywords: pure dephasing; bipartite systems; sbs states; objectivity bipartite ... See more keywords
Paradox puts objectivity on shaky footing.
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DOI: 10.1126/science.369.6506.889
Abstract: Researchers in Australia and Taiwan have offered perhaps the sharpest demonstration that a classic quantum paradox is real. In a study published this week in Nature Physics, they transform a thought experiment into a mathematical… read more here.
Keywords: objectivity shaky; paradox; puts objectivity; objectivity ... See more keywords