{
  "id": "on-the-subject-of-goethe-hermann-von-helmholtz-on-goethe-and-scientific-6568",
  "type": "article-journal",
  "title": "On the Subject of Goethe: Hermann von Helmholtz on Goethe and Scientific Objectivity",
  "author": [
    {
      "literal": "Dani Hallet"
    }
  ],
  "container-title": "Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science",
  "volume": "3",
  "issue": "1",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2009
      ]
    ]
  },
  "URL": "https://spontaneousgenerations.com/articles/on-the-subject-of-goethe-hermann-von-helmholtz-on-goethe-and-scientific-6568/",
  "page": "178-194",
  "DOI": "10.4245/sponge.v3i1.6568",
  "abstract": "In their recent book, Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison oppose the image of the scientist as a rational, objective, an dispassionate investigator of nature with that of the intuitively guided and emotionally volatile artistic genius. The authors argue that the emergence of objectivity as an epistemic virtue in nineteenth-century scientific practices was intimately tied to a newly perceived threat to knowledge: that of the subjective self. In their discussion, Daston and Galison cite the artist’s creative imposition of ideas on the world as quintessentially subjective and opposed to science."
}