**Objective knowledge** Debates over [scientific objectivity](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-objectivity/) have a dynamic history and a range of different ideals have been associated with the notion [(Daston and Galison 2007)](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/objectivity). 1. One influential view is that objective knowledge is the outcome of a universal view-from-nowhere that is unbiased, neutral, dispassionate, and impartial. This notion of objectivity is widely criticized. 2. Within contemporary accounts of scientific practice objective knowledge is described as a product of practices that generate [robust](https://osf.io/ytzdv/) intersubjective accounts of the objects and phenomena being investigated. While often positioned in contrast to [contingent knowledge](https://osf.io/duzjx/), many scholars argue that it is possible - even preferable - to view knowledge as capable of being [simultaneously objective and contingent ](https://osf.io/8wer2/). **References Listed** * Daston, Lorraine, and Peter Galison. 2007. Objectivity. New York and Cambridge, Mass.: Zone Books and MIT Press. * Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on [scientific objectivity](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-objectivity/)