Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: The ideal of objectivity as observer-independent truth has shaped scientific thought since early modern times. Yet contemporary science reveals that all knowledge is perspective-bound embedded, embodied, and enacted observers participate in constructing coherent accounts of reality. This work develops a synthetic, observer-based epistemology that unifies insights from physics, chemistry, biology, cognitive science, ecology, and philosophy, showing how structured intersubjective mechanisms allow perspectival integration into scientifically valid knowledge across domains.
Source: Qeios
DOI: 10.32388/tlfz3v
Author: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Institution: Chalmers University of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415775589