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发表于2024-12-23
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说是讲数字,其实说到底讲的是客观性。Porter把近代大批出现的图标、数字、公式看成一种消除不信任的沟通策略,它们使得不同地点、先前没有共同知识基础的陌生人可以用一套机械化的语言进行沟通。Porter认为这种机械化的客观性对于那些受外界质疑较多或者学科社群不够稳固的学科尤为重要。在方法论上,Porter和90年代的很多科学史学家一样,意欲突破“真理发展”、“意识形态影响”这种“内vs外”的二元史观,注重挖掘内、外之间的coproducibility,揭示机械客观的所谓“真理”既不内生、也不外生,而是一种内、外之间的沟通技术。感觉章节设置不太合理,写作欠缺条理性,分析框架中expertise和客观性的二元对立让人感觉有点reductive。另外面铺得有点大,有些地方材料单薄。
评分一直在找的神书--总结了我想说又说不出的道理,同时启发了研究。作者文笔很好。
评分Objectivity is not about truth; it’s about trust.详述了美英法不同的拥抱numbers的过程,以及不同的精英阶层各异的适应方式,最后呼应ezrahi认为科技/量化是现代民主的必要条件之一,即使科学家群体是一个没怎么少了政治和社会化的职业圈子。
评分Objectivity is not about truth; it’s about trust.详述了美英法不同的拥抱numbers的过程,以及不同的精英阶层各异的适应方式,最后呼应ezrahi认为科技/量化是现代民主的必要条件之一,即使科学家群体是一个没怎么少了政治和社会化的职业圈子。
评分感觉整本书的叙述结构可以做得更清楚的,现在读下来感觉就是我就一个大观点然后不停地用历史上的例子重复这个观点,掩盖了历史本身的细节和复杂。Objectivity这个概念也是躲躲闪闪地没说清楚。
This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine.
Drawing on a wide range of examples from the laboratory and from the worlds of accounting, insurance, cost-benefit analysis, and civil engineering, Porter shows that it is "exactly wrong" to interpret the drive for quantitative rigor as inherent somehow in the activity of science except where political and social pressures force compromise. Instead, quantification grows from attempts to develop a strategy of impersonality in response to pressures from outside. Objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts, quantification becoming most important where elites are weak, where private negotiation is suspect, and where trust is in short supply.
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