There are various conceptions of objectivity, a characteristic the scientific enterprise, most fundamental being objectivity as faithfulness to facts. A brute fact, which happens independently from us, becomes fact once we take cognisance it through means made available us by science. Because complex, reciprocal relationship between facts and theory, concept does not hold in strict sense an ape...

Abstract This paper challenges the exclusion of patients from epistemic practices in psychiatry by examining creation and revision processes Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (DSM), a document produced American Psychiatric Association that identifies properties mental disorders thereby guides research, diagnosis, treatment, various administrative tasks. It argues there are epistemi...