Objectivity and inter-cultural experience

William R. McKenna

pp. 111-118

in: David Carr, Chan-Fai Cheung (eds), Space, time, and culture, Berlin, Springer, 2004

Abstract

This paper is part of an ongoing project to develop a theory of "situated objectivity" and to apply it to various human interactions. My interest is to develop a concept of objectivity that has certain aspects of human experience contribute to objectivity that are considered irrelevant or even obstacles to it in what I consider to be the leading concept of objectivity in modern Western philosophy. This concept is the concept of scientific objectivity that Thomas Nagel has called "the view from nowhere."

Cited authors

Nagel Thomas