''Strong objectivity'': A response to the new objectivity question
''Strong objectivity'': A response to the new objectivity question
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DOI：
10.1007/bf01064504
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发表时间：
1995-09-01
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1.5
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Harding, S
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作者：
Harding, S
旧的“客观性问题”问的是“客观性还是相对主义：你站在哪一边？”，新的“客观性问题”则拒绝这一选择，而是寻求绕过将选择限制在这两者的概念框架的广泛认可的问题。它提出的问题是，“客观性的概念如何才能更新并使其对当代知识寻求项目有用？”对这个问题的一个回应是“强客观性”计划，它利用女权主义立场认识论来提供一种发现逻辑，以最大限度地提高我们阻止科学中“强权即公理”的能力。它通过将中立性理想与最大化客观性的标准脱钩来实现这一点，因为现在人们普遍认为中立性不仅没有必要，不仅没有帮助，而且最糟糕的是，当知识扭曲的利益和价值观构成了一个研究项目时，中立性成为最大化客观性的障碍。强烈的客观性为纠正这种情况提供了方法。然而，立场方法有其自身的局限性，这与大多数批评家倾向于关注的对立场方法的误读截然不同。不幸的是，在历史的这个时刻，我们只能选择历史上有限的认识论和科学哲学。
Where the old ''objectivity question'' asked, ''Objectivity or relativism: which side are you on?'', the new one refuses this choice, seeking instead to bypass widely recognized problems with the conceptual framework that restricts the choices to these two. It asks, ''How can the notion of objectivity be updated and made useful for contemporary knowledge-seeking projects?'' One response to this question is the ''strong objectivity'' program that draws on feminist standpoint epistemology to provide a kind of logic of discovery for maximizing our ability to block ''might makes right'' in the sciences. It does so by delinking the neutrality ideal from standards for maximizing objectivity, since neutrality is now widely recognized as not only not necessary, not only not helpful, but, worst of all, an obstacle to maximizing objectivity when knowledge-distorting interests and values have constituted a research project. Strong objectivity provides a method for correcting this kind of situation. However, standpoint approaches have their own limitations which are quite different from the misreadings of them upon which most critics have tended to focus. Unfortunately, historically limited epistemologies and philosophies of science are all we get to choose from at this moment in history.