Psychiatrists function, in part, as historians who rely on patient narratives to help them understand presenting mental disorders and explain their causes. Forensic psychiatrists have been skeptical of using narratives, raising concerns about their lack of objectivity and potential for bias. They also have criticized narratives as being more performative than scientific. Recent authors, however...

The article seeks the roots of the journalistic concept of objectivity in various theoretical schools. It argues that the concept of objectivity in journalism originates in the positivistic tradition and, furthermore, that it is strongly related to tan earlier theoretical school within historiography. Journalism has made several attempts have been made by journalism to break free of the positiv...

One of the goals of undergraduate education should be the acquisition of a scientific attitude, determined by affective dimensions, and whose traits or characteristics should include: curiosity, objectivity, open-mindedness, flexibility, critical thinking, intellectual honesty, investigative energy, creative daring and social participation. In short, the ‘‘university essence’’: creating and tra...

Before beginning the review of this book, we had no particular opinion about the role of low carbohydrate diets in diabetes. In order to write a fair and unbiased review, we have done a rather extensive search on the subject. One of the most disturbing findings of our search is the amount of hostility towards low carbohydrate diets that is on the web and in the scientific literature. We found s...

The World Trade Organization Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Agreement) provides a framework for managing biosecurity risks in imported agricultural products, under which risk management measures applied to imported goods must be based on a scientific risk assessment. The most important consideration within this framework is the concept of the appropriat...

One of the goals of undergraduate education should be the acquisition of a scientific attitude, determined by affective dimensions, and whose traits or characteristics should include: curiosity, objectivity, open-mindedness, flexibility, critical thinking, intellectual honesty, investigative energy, creative daring and social participation. In short, the ‘‘university essence’’: creating and tra...

We provide an overview of three ways in which the expression ‘Historical epistemology’ (HE) is often understood: (1) HE as a study of the history of higher-order epistemic concepts such as objectivity, observation, experimentation, or probability; (2) HE as a study of the historical trajectories of the objects of research, such as the electron, DNA, or phlogiston; (3) HE as the long-term study ...

muslim theologians in the holy quran and the practice of what he describes as an alternative or used god's name, name (plural nouns) is called god. whether the names and attributes of god referred to in the qur'an, the sunnah and the consensus is not seized or the names of allah, is bound to be mentioned in the sources,among the important difference scholars of the islamic world, espe...

Objectivity has long been contentious in American journalism. Many practitioners call it essential to a news organization’s credibility. Critics, however, hold objectivity is impossible and urge reporters simply to reveal their biases. For educators, teaching objectivity is challenging. Some, seeking a middle ground, instead urge fairness and balance, or counsel “impartiality.” Even such approa...

In this paper, we analyze the social value of accounting objectivity in maintaining bank stability. Building on an early, in‡uential accounting work by Ijiri and Jaedicke (1966), we operationalize two informational properties, objectivity and accuracy, in a correlated information structure and embedded them into a model of bank runs. We show that, when compared with the accuracy property, the o...