Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston Jennifer ( born June 9, 1951 in East Lansing ) is an American historian of science, and director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She is married to Gerd Gigerenzer.

Work

Daston received his doctorate in 1979 from Harvard University and has since taught at the universities of Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, and Göttingen. Since 1995 she has worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She is also a visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of the History of Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She was also a visiting professor in Paris and Vienna and held the Isaiah Berlin Lectures at Oxford University (1999), the West Lectures at Stanford University ( 2005) and Tanner Lectures at Harvard University ( 2002). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1993) and member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and since 2002 the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Work areas

Within the history of science Dastons focus on ideals and practices of rationality. Her work focuses on epistemological and ontological categories (including " scientific object ", " objectivity ", " demonstration " and " observation " ) that shape scientific studies and their standards. Lorraine Daston has published on a variety of topics in the history of science, for example, on the history of probability and statistics, the problem of miracles in the early modern science, the emergence of a scientific fact, scientific models, scientific investigation objects, the moral authority of nature and the history of scientific objectivity.

Awards

Writings (selection )

  • With Peter Galison: Objectivity. Zone Books, New York, NY 2007, ISBN 978-1-890951-78-8 German edition: objectivity. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-518-58486-6
  • German edition: Wonder and the order of nature, 1150-1750. Eichborn, Berlin et al 2002, ISBN 3-8218-1633-3

(as Hersg. )

  • With Elizabeth Lunbeck: Histories of Scientific Observation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL, inter alia, 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-13678-3.
  • With Katharine Park: Early modern science ( = The Cambridge history of science Volume 3. ). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, inter alia, 2006, ISBN 0-521-57244-4.
  • Christoph Engel: Is there value in inconsistency? (= Common Goods. Band 15). Nomos, Baden -Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-2143-5.
  • With Gregg Mitman: Thinking with animals. New perspectives on anthropomorphism. Columbia University Press, New York, NY, inter alia, 2005, ISBN 0-231-13038-4.
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