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Conrad, Erich Charles. "Science and objectivity /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3308928.
Full textDennis, Robin. "Egocentricity and objectivity." Thesis, University of York, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542838.
Full textBarton, Jon. "Warrant and objectivity." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2007. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/1082/.
Full textMartin, Wayne M. "Idealism and objectivity understanding Fichte's Jena project /." Stanford (Calif.) : Stanford University Press, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37080405t.
Full textThornton, Tim. "Judgement, objectivity and practice : an investigation of the objectivity of empirical judgement." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319883.
Full textStavropoulos, Nicolas E. "Objectivity in legal interpretation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334241.
Full textTaylor, Timothy Edwin. "Reasons, value and objectivity." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.582527.
Full textCarter, Eric Kevin. "Objectivity, Language, and Communication." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1308311590.
Full textMcKaiser, Eusebius. "In defence of moral objectivity." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007599.
Full textBrewer, Bill. "Objectivity, agency and self-location." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303509.
Full textGarner, Stephanie. "McDowell's oscillation, objectivity and rationality." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:716edcdd-3b37-4b12-811c-cf7c3355a779.
Full textDickerson, A. B. "Kant on representation and objectivity /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39088471t.
Full textReilly, Elizabeth. "Objectivity and responsibility in moral education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ27233.pdf.
Full textAvila-Canamares, Ignacio. "Egocentricity and objectivity in perceptual experience." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487812.
Full textEllis, Robert Michael. "A Buddhist theory of moral objectivity." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289002.
Full textBotchkina, Ekaterin. "Issues in objectivity and mind-dependence." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107329.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 90-93).
Reality and objectivity are often characterized in terms of independence from the mind: the first-pass idea is that what it takes for any particular subject matter to be real and objective is for facts about it to obtain independently of beliefs, linguistic practices, conceptual schemes, and so on. But if we take seriously the possibility that significant realms of reality, including social kinds, judgment-dependent properties, and mental phenomena themselves, stand in various dependence relations to the mental, then this first-pass characterization needs to be significantly revised. In this set of papers, I consider the special questions that metaphysically mind-dependent entities raise for issues of objectivity and realism. In Part 1, 1 substantiate the notion of metaphysical mind-dependence with a taxonomy of the various ways in which entities can stand in metaphysical relations of dependence to mental phenomena. In Part II, I address the question of realism and mind-dependence: I argue that while certain entities stand in relations of significant, direct, and essential dependence on mental activity, they are nevertheless fully real. In making the argument, I elaborate a distinction between enactive and essential dependence on mental phenomena, arguing that both kinds of dependence may obtain without impinging on an entity's reality. In Part III, I address the question of objectivity and mind-dependence: I argue that certain kinds of mind-dependence, in particular, dependence on judgments, have the effect of undermining the objectivity of the relevant domain. One consequence of the view I develop is that the objectivity of a subject matter can come apart from the reality of its associated entities; another is that objectivity is a feature that is relative, rather than absolute, and depends crucially on which perspectives are brought to bear for the purposes of evaluation.
by Ekaterina Botchkina.
Ph. D.
Dracos, Marcos Gregorios. "Interpretation and objectivity in written contracts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614315.
Full textWard, Laura Aline. "Objectivity in Feminist Philosophy of Science." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36098.
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James, Steven Michael. "Triangulation and the Problem of Objectivity." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316500581.
Full textMcKernan, John Francis. "Truth, objectivity and subjectivity in accounting." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2001. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/970/.
Full textPh.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
Gullberg, Ebba. "Objects and objectivity : Alternatives to mathematical realism." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43692.
Full textTimotheatos, Angelos. "Universalizability as necessary for objectivity in morality." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39057.pdf.
Full textJames, Eric Peter. "Aspects of truth and objectivity in mathematics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314976.
Full textMcNulty, Lisa. "Objectivity, reasoning and interdisciplinary : making the links." Thesis, University of Kent, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633696.
Full textRantsudu, Boitshwarelo. "Stance and objectivity in hard news reporting." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/119443/.
Full textTodd, Cain Samuel. "Objectivity, imagination, and value in aesthetic judgement." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619823.
Full textJacobz, Melville. "Objectivity, power and interests : a sociological analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52376.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Discourse about the human world has, since Socrates, been structured around the assumption that one view of a given matter is better than competing views, and that argumentation, if carried out correctly and systematically, will favour the view which has the preponderance of reasons and evidence on its side. If this supposition were dropped, the nature of social scientific inquiry would change significantly. For many commentators in the social sciences the ineliminable interpretative dimension of social inquiry and the standpoint-bound character of interpretation lead to the conclusion that we have to abandon any notion of objective truth in the social sciences. The central question raised in this thesis is whether this abandonment is inevitable or even plausible. Is it plausible to conflate objectivity and truth? Is objectivity a possible characteristic of the individual researcher or a characteristic of the scientific research process? Does the cultural environment of the researcher impact on the validity of research findings? If science is a social phenomenon, are scientific beliefs different from other beliefs? How do the interests of the individual researcher or the formal organisation of scientific practice impact on the validity of findings? What role does power play in the shaping of knowledge? These are the questions that will be addressed in the following thesis. The methodology of Max Weber serves as a point of departure and divergences and similarities to the work of Weber are explored in the writings of Kuhn, the Edinburgh School, Latour, Foucault, Habermas, as well as contemporary postmodernist and feminist writers. The analysis of these various concepts and approaches is not presented chronologically, but rather as an exposition of the contributors of various commentators in the fields of both the sociology of science and knowledge, and the philosophy of science.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Diskoers oor die menslike wêreld is, sedert Socrates, gestuktureer rondom die aanname dat een siening van 'n gegewe saak beter is as mededingende sienings, en dat argumentasie, indien korrek en sistematies uitgevoer, ten voordeel sal wees van die siening wat gesteun word deur die oormaat van redes en bewyse. As ons hierdie aanname sou laat vaar, sal die stand van sosiaal wetenskaplike ondersoek ingrypend verander. Vir menige kommentator in die sosiale wetenskappe lei die onafwendbare interpretatiewe dimensie van maatskaplike ondersoek, en die standpunt-gebonde aard van interpretasie, tot die gevolgtrekking dat ons enige opvatting van objektiwiteit in die sosiale wetenskappe moet laat vaar. Die kernvraag in hierdie tesis is of hierdie verskuiwing onvermydelik of selfs aanneemlik is. Is dit geldig om objektiwiteit en waarheid saam te snoer? Is objektiwiteit 'n moontlike eienskap van die individuele navorser, of 'n eienskap van die navorsingsproses? Watter impak het die kulturele omgewing van die navorser op die geldigheid van die navorsingsbevindinge? As wetenskap 'n sosiale fenomeen is, is wetenskaplike oortuigings enigsins anders as ander oortuigings? Watter impak het die belange van 'n individuele navorser, of die formele organsiasie van wetenskaplike praktyk, op die geldigheid van bevindings? Watter rol speel mag in die vorming en skepping van kennis? Hierdie is die vrae wat aangespreek word in dié tesis. Die metodologie van Max Weber dien as vertrekpunt, en ooreenkomste tot en afwykings van die sienings van Weber word ondersoek in die werk van Kuhn, die "Edinburgh School", Latour, Foucault, Habermas, sowel as kontemporêre postmoderne en feministiese skrywers. Die analise van hierdie verskeie konsepte en benaderings word nie kronologies aangebied nie, maar eerder as 'n uiteensetting van die bydraes van verskeie kommentators op die gebied van die sosiologie van die wetenskap en van kennis, sowel as die filosofie van wetenskap.
Rosenkranz, Sven. "Objectivity and realism : meeting the manifestation challenge." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14685.
Full textMiller, Jean Anne. "Naturalism & Objectivity: Methods and Meta-methods." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28329.
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Haely, Karen Cordrick. "Objectivity in the feminist philosophy of science." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1064415629.
Full textTitle from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 145 p.; also includes graphics. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Louise M. Antony, Dept. of Philosophy. Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-145).
Geoffroy, William. "Advocacy vs. Objectivity in the Outdoor Press." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292202.
Full textIslam, Ferdosh. "Moral realism : a study in moral objectivity." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/78.
Full textTingley, Edward. "Notes on the objectivity of meaning Gadamerian observations." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5900.
Full textStrickland, Susan. "Objectivity, perspectivity and difference : issues in feminist epistemology." Thesis, University of Hull, 1993. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:8103.
Full textLogan, Benjamin A. "SELF-RESPECT AND OBJECTIVITY: A CRITIQUE OF RAWLS." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/philosophy_etds/10.
Full textBernardoni, Joseph. "Knowing nature without mirrors Thomas Kuhn's antirepresentationalist objectivity /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3605.
Full textWestfall, R. H. "Objectivity in stratification, sampling and classification of vegetation." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09032009-212008/.
Full textMendelsohn, Joshua Aidan. "Objects, objectivity and idealism: Robert Brandom's analytic Hegelianism." Thesis, Department of Philosophy, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7967.
Full textLangone, Kenny. "Journalistic Objectivity: Is Chasing Rainbows a Worthwhile Endeavor?" Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292227.
Full textVokey, Daniel James. "Reasons of the heart, moral objectivity and moral education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ28076.pdf.
Full textFellows, Jennifer Jill. "Making up knowers : objectivity and categories of epistemic subjects." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/36898.
Full textDrayson, Hannah Elizabeth. "Gestalt biometrics and their applications : instrumentation, objectivity and poetics." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/866.
Full textKuklok, Allison Sara. "Conceptualism and Objectivity in Locke's Account of Natural Kinds." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11079.
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Sonnemaker, Tyler. "Objectivity and the Role of Journalism in Democratic Societies." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1057.
Full textKramer, Matthew Henry. "A critique of the ideal of objectivity : against Rhadamanthus." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306452.
Full textMcFarland, Kathryn. "Feigning Objectivity: An Overlooked Conversational Strategy in Everyday Disputes." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1426205479.
Full textGabriel, Jay F. "Objectivity and Autonomy in the Newsroom: A Field Approach." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/1167.
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This dissertation provides a better understanding of how journalists attain their personal and occupational identities. In particular, I examine the origins and meanings of journalistic objectivity as well as the professional autonomy that is specific to journalism. Journalists understand objectivity as a worldview, value, ideal, and impossibility. A central question that remains is why the term objectivity has become highly devalued in journalistic discourse in the past 30 years, a puzzling development considered in light of evidence that "objectivity" remains important in American journalism. I use Bourdieu's notion of field to explore anthropological ways of looking at objectivity, for instance, viewing it as a practice that distinguishes journalists from other professionals as knowledge workers. Applying notions of field to the journalistic field through anthropological methods and perspective permits the linkage of microlevel perspectives to macrolevel social phenomena. The dissertation demonstrates how qualitative research on individuals and newsroom organizations can be connected to the field of journalism in the United States. Additionally, it offers insight into why journalists continue to embrace objectivity, even as they acknowledge its deficiencies as a journalistic goal.
Temple University--Theses
Palatnik, Nataliya. "Kant's Science of the Moral World and Moral Objectivity." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845444.
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Fagan, Melinda Bonnie. "Objectivity in practice integrative social epistemology of scientific inquiry /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3274925.
Full textTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 11, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2974. Adviser: Elisabeth A. Lloyd.
McGrail, J. Patrick. "Sensationalism, narrativity and objectivity---modeling ongoing news story practice." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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