Charney

Empiricism not a 4 letter word

quals reading notes June 30

Important piece that indicates the value of balancing different methods and not judging or valuing
people based upon the methods they use or what they are like as people based upon their research.

Don't toss out quant & objective methods just because they've been misused in the past. They may be
able provide & work towards social justice. And just because people do qual does not mean they're
interested in human rights; similarly, just cause people do quant does not make them evil corporate
drones.

DISS
nothing directly related to diss here

Other
283
methods & ideologies of Sci Method critics are conflated
just cause you do qual don't make you a liberatory person

mischaracterizations of science

284
implicating science in injustice

286
equation of indeterminacy and power politics

288
critics ignore other motives for adopting, or attempting to adopt, objective methods

290
doing objective work does not automatically give you authority
-critique of science by colleagues, etc.

291
criticisms essentialize reseachers based on their methods

292
a researcher's sympathies can't be deduced from a report

295
objectivity as collective authority

297
“In rejecting logocentrism. subjectivist critics veer towards "ethnocentrism." a fixation on claims to rightful authority.”