How we arrived at a capacity for taking cold, hard looks at the facts of nature--and whether we ever truly have done so--are questions that continue to engage both historians of science and students of culture. Historians of modern European intellectual history commonly credit Francis Bacon with laying the groundwork for a mode of study that begins without presuppositions, religious or otherwise, the kind of searching we know as research and long have credited as being -disinterested.-
In Objectivity in the Making, Julie Robin Solomon shows how -disinterestedness- became a...
How we arrived at a capacity for taking cold, hard looks at the facts of nature--and whether we ever truly have done so--are questions that continu...
