Objectivity Beyond the Laboratory

Beyond Modes of Objectivity

Frege, and others who followed him, stressed the role of fallibility as a means to defining ‘objectivity.’ By defining objective judgments as fallible, these philosophers contributed to the consolidation of a theory of objectivity which suggested interpreting epistemological, as well as other judgements, as being objective. An important philosophical implication of this theory lies in its discl...

Beyond the axioms: The question of objectivity in mathematics

I will be discussing the axiomatic conception of mathematics, the modern version of which is clearly due to Hilbert; but one aspect of it goes back to Cantor. I refer here to Hilbert’s view that the demands of mathematical existence and truth are entirely met by a suitable axiomatization. By whatever dialectical process we come to adopt the axioms, whatever ‘intuitions’ lead us to them, the que...

Superior productivity- in the laboratory and beyond

Analytical chemistry enjoyed a revolution in instrumental techniques during the 1960s and 1970s. This, in turn, stimulated new developments of simple laboratory automation led by improved analytical instruments, auto-samplers and chromatographic integratcs. During the 1980s, new generations of powerful laboratory automation emerged; primarily laboratory information systems and laboratory roboti...

The Objectivity of a Methodology

The Objectivity of Intuitive Knowledge in Islamic mysticism

One of the important issues in the philosophy of mysticism is the reality of the appurtenant in mystical intuition. Among the important issues this section is answer to this question of how can justify that objectivity in mystical intuition, according to philosophical reality (ontology) and epistemological issues. In this essay, we have tried to study the objectivity of intuitive knowledge in I...