Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Valuable but Contested Concept
Part I: The Intelligible World
1. Objectivity and First Philosophies
2. Objectivism, Relativism, and the Cartesian Anxiety
Part II: Beyond the Science Wars
3. Objectivity in the Natural Sciences
4. Objectivity in the Human and Behavioral Sciences
Part III: Critical Reconstructions of Objectivity
5. Objectivity Rehabilitated
6. Ethics and Objectivity
Notes
References

About the Author

Guy Axtell is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Radford University

Reviews

"A solid, wide ranging, knowledgeable study of objectivity, not only in the natural sciences, but also in the social sciences, history, and ethics."
Catherine Elgin, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"Axtell has written a wide-ranging, intellectually spirited and engaging treatment of this central philosophical topic."
Duncan Pritchard, University of Edinburgh