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SUMMARY:How scientific plurality and sociality enhance scientific objectiv
 ity - Helen Longino (Stanford University)
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CONTACT:Ahmad Elabbar
DESCRIPTION:We are urged to trust science because it is objective. Efforts
  to support the objectivity of scientific inquiry\, however\, often make a
 ssumptions that ultimately fuel skepticism about the very possibility of s
 uch objectivity. One is a commitment to scientific monism: the idea that s
 cientific inquiry\, properly pursued\, should result in a single\, compreh
 ensive\, account of a given domain or even of the natural world\, tout cou
 rt. A second is commitment to any of a variety of Individualist epistemolo
 gies\, all informed by the principle that scientific knowledge is the outc
 ome of cognitive processes realized by single individuals. Abandoning moni
 sm and individualism may complicate our conception of objectivity. Neverth
 eless\, embracing pluralism and the sociality of knowledge in their stead 
 enables a more robust account of the trustworthiness of science.
LOCATION:Babbage Lecture Theatre\, New Museums Site
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