Plumwood adopts Keller’s dynamic objectivity as the non-dualistic mode of observation
Evidence
Subject/object dualism, as a mode of attention to the world which denies dependency and kinship between observer and observed, has been discussed insightfully by Evelyn Fox Keller (1985). In subject/object dualism, radical exclusion can appear in the denial of commonality and empathy noted above, and the treatment of observation as itself a form of domination of an alien other. Fox Keller contrasts it with ‘dynamic objectivity’, a form of observation premised on continuity, which ‘aims at a form of knowledge which grants to the world around us its independent integrity but does so in a way which remains cognisant of, indeed relies on, our connectivity with that world’ (1985:117). — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 463
Categorization
- XREF: Keller’s dynamic objectivity is the epistemic method thread connecting to the listening/observation-as-method thread running through all four courses, and to Eco-Justice’s observational stance. — connects to: Self forms through recognizing an other both alike and different — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 582; Scientific objectivity requires severing the observer’s connective relationship with the observed — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 152; Physics’ pursuit of objectivity paradoxically de-materialized nature — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 575 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Scientific objectivity requires severing the observer’s connective relationship with the observed
#contradicts(0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 152 - Physics’ pursuit of objectivity paradoxically de-materialized nature
#contradicts(0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 575 - Objectivity is freedom from commitment-biased perception
#qualifies(0.75) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9594