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The myth of the view from nowhere. True objectivity would require a disembodied, ahistorical, bias-free perspective completely outside the system being observed. This is impossible for humans. Every observation is made by a situated observer with a body, a language, a culture, and a set of prior beliefs. The hard problem is that while we can approach objectivity through methods (blinding, controls, peer review), we can never fully attain it. The ideal of pure objectivity may be a necessary regulative ideal for science and ethics, but it is also a philosophical phantom.
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