Shapin, Steven2020-04-292012Shapin, S. 2012. The Sciences of Subjectivity. Social Studies of Science 42, no. 2: 170–184.0306-31271460-3659http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42661993In historical and ethnographic studies of the making of scientific knowledge, there has been a long-standing fascination with deflating certain stories about objectivity. Among the resources used to achieve that deflation have been the notions of subjectivity, which has been treated more as a trouble for objectivity than as a knowledge-making mode open to systematic study. I describe notions of subjectivity implicated in that inattention; I trace potentially constructive links between contemporary science studies and resources in 18th-century philosophical aesthetics; I draw notice to available engagements with the mode of subjectivity known as taste, and, especially, gustation and olfaction; and I suggest ways in which we might study the achievement of intersubjectivity in these domains.en-USaestheticsjudgmentobjectivitysubjectivityscientific knowledgetasteJournal Article2014-12-12Steven Shapin2020-04-2910.1177/0306312711435375