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American historian of science
Lorraine Daston
Born (1951-06-09 ) June 9, 1951 (age 72) East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.
Education Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard University
Lorraine Daston (born June 9, 1951)
[1] is an American
historian of science . Director emerita of the
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in
Berlin , and visiting professor in the
Committee on Social Thought at the
University of Chicago , she is an authority on Early Modern European scientific and
intellectual history . In 1993, she was named a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences . She is a permanent fellow at the
Berlin Institute for Advanced Study .
[2]
Education
Study of history and science at
Harvard University (BA 1973 summa cum laude)
diploma in history and philosophy of science Univ. of Cambridge (1974)
PhD in the history of science Harvard Univ. (1979),
[3] supervised by
I. Bernard Cohen
[4]
Scholarly activities
Daston divides her year between a nine-month period in Berlin, and a three-month period in Chicago, where she usually teaches a seminar and assists doctoral students.[
citation needed ]
Daston was appointed the inaugural
Humanitas Professor in the
History of Ideas at
University of Oxford for 2013. She has also held Oxford's
Isaiah Berlin Visiting Professorship in Intellectual History. In 2002, she delivered two Tanner Lectures at
Harvard University , in which she traced theoretical conceptions of nature in several literary and philosophical works.
[1] In 2006 she gave the
British Academy 's Master-Mind Lecture.
[5]
She is on the editorial board of
Critical Inquiry .
[6]
Daston was awarded the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2010. She was elected to the
American Philosophical Society in 2017.
[7] In 2018 she received the
Dan David Prize .
[8] She is married to the German psychologist and social scientist
Gerd Gigerenzer .[
citation needed ]
Bibliography
Monographs
Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate , Columbia Global Reports 2023, ISBN 979-8987053560.
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By ,
Princeton University Press 2022, ISBN 978-0691254081.
Against Nature , MIT Press 2019, ISBN 978-0262537339.
doi :
10.7551/mitpress/12267.001.0001
with
Peter Galison : Objectivity , Zone Books 2007, ISBN 978-1890951795.
Wunder, Beweise und Tatsachen: zur Geschichte der Rationalität ,
Fischer Verlag 2001, ISBN 978-3596147632.
Eine kurze Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Aufmerksamkeit , Siemens-Stiftung 2001.
with
Katharine Park : Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750, Zone Books 1998, ISBN 978-0942299915.
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment , Princeton University Press 1988, ISBN 978-0691084978.
As editor
with
Elizabeth Lunbeck : Histories of scientific observation , University of Chicago Press 2011, ISBN 978-0226136776.
with
Michael Stolleis : Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe , Ashgate 2008, ISBN 978-0754657613
with Fernando Vidal: The Moral Authority of Nature , University of Chicago Press 2003, ISBN 978-0226136813.
Biographies of Scientific Objects ,
University of Chicago Press 2000, ISBN 978-0226136721.
Articles (selection)
with Moritz Stefaner & Jen Christiansen: "The language of science". 175 Years of Discovery.
Scientific American . 323 (3): 2020, 24–31.
"Before the Two Cultures: Big Science and Big Humanities in the Nineteenth Century". Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities . IX (1): 2015.
brief description, Bookstore, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
"The Disciplines of Attention," in
David E. Wellbery , ed., A New History of German Literature , Harvard University Press Reference Library, 2005.
"The Morality of Natural Orders: The Power of Medea" and "Nature's Customs versus Nature's Laws" . Tanner Lectures at Harvard University, 2002.
"The Ideal and Reality of the Republic of Letters in the Enlightenment". Science in Context. 4 (2): 1991, pp. 367-386.
doi :
10.1017/S0269889700001010
References
External links
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