The Ideal of Objectivity

In Science, truth, and democracy. New York: Oxford University Press (2001)
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Abstract

The next step is to explore the possibility of scientific objectivity. It is argued that the supposed underdetermination of theory by evidence is not as intractable a problem as it has sometimes appeared, and that it does not prevent scientists from aspiring to objectivity.

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Philip Kitcher
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