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Who Gets To Claim Objective Reality? An Imaginative Dive Into Cultural Fictions Along the Science-Spirit Divide
The Emerald
The Importance of Subjectivity in Western Science
Many consider Western science to sit on an unassailable throne of objectivity. In every era that science has claimed objectivity, we can now look back and see a glaring lack of objectivity,. Nowhere is this more evident than in colonial anthropology. Colonial anthropologists debated for decades on whether Australian aboriginals were actually human. So is clinical observation in a deliberately deanimated world really the best way to determine if there is or is not an animate force that inhabits the world?
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