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FlorenceArt · 03-02-2011, 08:22 AM

I am reading Objectivity by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. The social aspects of science is a subject I find fascinating. We tend to think of science as something pure and eternal, when in fact it is a social construction as much as anything else human. Which doesn't mean that the findings of science are all relative and impermanent, but that what we find and how we get to it depends in large parts of how we see the world and what we think science should or shouldn't be.

This is the second book by Lorraine Daston I read (the first was Wonders and the Order of Nature), and I like her outlook and the way she writes, and the subjects she chooses. This is a somewhat arduous but very rewarding read.

03-02-2011, 08:22 AM	#146
FlorenceArt High Priestess Posts: 5,761 Karma: 5042529 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Montreuil sous bois, France Device: iPad Pro 9.7, iPhone 6 Plus	I am reading Objectivity by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. The social aspects of science is a subject I find fascinating. We tend to think of science as something pure and eternal, when in fact it is a social construction as much as anything else human. Which doesn't mean that the findings of science are all relative and impermanent, but that what we find and how we get to it depends in large parts of how we see the world and what we think science should or shouldn't be. This is the second book by Lorraine Daston I read (the first was Wonders and the Order of Nature), and I like her outlook and the way she writes, and the subjects she chooses. This is a somewhat arduous but very rewarding read.