Scientific practice has long been guided by an ideal of objectivity, yet the influence of values—both epistemic and non-epistemic—pervades every stage of research. Epistemic values, such as accuracy, ...

Even if you don't recall many facts from high school biology, you likely remember the cells required for making babies: egg and sperm. Maybe you can picture a swarm of sperm cells battling each other ...

“If the substance of a thing is made of its relations with other things, a way to show that substance is to prove that these relations resist, that they are recalcitrant.” Let’s be honest: Nobody ...

Prologue: objectivity shock -- I. Epistemologies of the eye: Blind sight -- Collective empiricism -- Objectivity is new -- Histories of the scientific self -- Epistemic virtues -- The argument -- ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This is the third and final installment of my ...