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Full Idea
'Objective' is misleading because it is possible to be, from a personal point of view, more or less objective; objectivity admits of degrees… I prefer to speak of sciences as 'impersonal', because the personal view is lost.
Gist of Idea
The personal view can still be objective, so I call sciences 'impersonal', rather than objective
Source
Peter Goldie (The Emotions [2000], Intro)
Book Ref
Goldie,Peter: 'The Emotions' [OUP 2002], p.2
A Reaction
This evidently relates to Perry's claim that the world contains additional indexical facts. I think I agree with this thought. Objectivity is a mode of subjectivity. Thermometers are not 'objective'. Physics is certainly impersonal.