of scientific progress. Donna Haraway's Situated Knowledges In Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988), Donna Haraway argues that objectivity in science and philosophy is traditionally understood as a kind of disembodied and transcendent "conquering gaze from nowhere." She argues that this kind of objectivity, in which the subject is split apart and distanced from the object, is an impossible "illusion, a god trick." She demands a re-thinking of objectivity in such a way that, while still striving for "faithful accounts of the real world," we must also acknowledge our perspective within the world. She calls this new kind of knowledge-making "situated knowledges." Objectivity, she argues, "turns out to be about particular and specific embodiment and ... not about the false vision promising transcendence of all limits and responsibility". This new objectivity, "allows us to become answerable for what we learn how to see." See also Objectivity (philosophy) References Sources Dawkins, Richard (2003). A Devil's Chaplain: Selected essays. Phoenix. Kuhn, Thomas (1962). The structure of scientific revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 3rd Ed., 1996. Latour, Bruno (1987). Science in Action. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Polanyi, Michael (1958). Personal knowledge, towards a post-critical philosophy. London: Routledge. Sokal, Alan & Bricmont, Jean (1999). Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern philosophers' abuse of science. London: Profile Books. Further reading Gaukroger, S. (2001). Objectivity, History of. IN: Smelser, N. J. & Baltes, P. B. (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford. (pp. 10785–10789). Porter, Theodore M. (1995). Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton University Press. Restivo, Sal. (20XX). Science, Society, and Values: Toward a Sociology of Objectivity. Lehigh University Press. Philosophy of science