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Varieties of Subjectivity

Recent work in analytic epistemology, philosophy of language and of science has brought back forward the distinction between the objective and the subjective (MacFarlane forthcoming), ( Gallison  &  Daston  2007), (Wright 2003),   ( Kölbel  2003, 2000), ( Daston 2001), (Searle 1995). As Searle (1995, 8) has clearly stated, the distinction works at different levels and as ( Daston  2001) has also stressed, these senses have historically evolved. In the following section, I will offer a taxonomy of senses and applications of the distinction, trying to make justice to the contemporary literature on the topic, but also necessarily diverging from all previous accounts of this  polysemy .   My starting point is  Daston’s  claim that our current understanding of the distinction is based on the identification of particular subjective  factors , like perspectives, linguistic conventions, psychological architecture, etc. These facts range from ( i ) the most personal and temporary, lik