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Lorraine Daston
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Lorraine Daston (born June 9, 1951 in East Lansing, Michigan) 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.
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), supervised by I. Bernard Cohen
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.
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. In 2006 she gave the British Academy's Master-Mind Lecture.
She is on the editorial board of Critical Inquiry.
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. In 2018 she received the Dan David Prize. She is married to the German psychologist and social scientist Gerd Gigerenzer.
Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (1988)
"The Ideal and Reality of the Republic of Letters in the Enlightenment" (1993)
Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750 (with Katharine Park, 1998)
"Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective" (1999)
Biographies of Scientific Objects (co-editor, 2000)
Eine kurze Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Aufmerksamkeit (2001)
Wunder, Beweise und Tatsachen: zur Geschichte der Rationalität (2001)
"The Morality of Natural Orders: The Power of Medea" and "Nature's Customs versus Nature's Laws" (Tanner Lectures at Harvard University, 2002)
The Moral Authority of Nature (co-editor, 2003)
"The Disciplines of Attention," in David E.
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