# Lorraine Daston
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Lorraine Jenifer Daston (born June 9, 1951) is an American historian of science. She is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and an authority on early modern Europe's scientific and intellectual history. In 1993, she was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
STEM of History The Science of Archives
We have a great conversation with Lorraine Daston editor of Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures.
Rules with Lorraine Daston
Today on Examining Ethics, historian of science Lorraine Daston discusses the history of rules and their connection to deep-seated values.
The post Rules with Lorraine Daston appeared first on The Prindle Institute for Ethics.
Extinction, Fast and Slow
One of the difficulties in thinking about extinction, as Lorraine Daston argued in her recent review of Vanished by Sadiah Qureshi, is ‘the challenge of scale: the mismatch between our decades and centuries and the Earth’s epochs and aeons’.
Lorraine joins Tom to explore the ways that ideas about…
The Art of the Collection
The Art of the Collection How Deep is Your Love? The Mania of Collecting Takes One Journalist to the Bottom of a River; Lorraine Daston on a History of Wonders; Artist Natasha Nicholson Lives Inside Her Art - Literally; Who's Got the Button? Gary Brockman Does.; David Axelrod on How to Run for Pres…
Ep. 340 - The Human Element Series - Is AI Changing Human Behavior with Jacob Ward
In this episode, Chris Hadnagy is joined by Jacob Ward, a veteran technology journalist who has reported for NBC News, Al Jazeera, CNN, and PBS, and previously served as editor-in-chief of Popular Science. Jacob is the author of The Loop: How AI Is Creating a World Without Choices—and How to Fight …
Episode 293: Professional Noticing
In this episode, we meet with Dr. Brett Criswell from West Chester University to discuss "professional noticing." Brett references his recent article in the New Educator.
Some other books Brett references include:
The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker
On Looking by Alexandra Horowitz
Slow Looki…
Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison - Objectivity
Imagine you're a scientist. What is it you are seeking: objectivity or truth? In this episode of Computer Science Off Course, we reflect on the aims of science in general and Computer Science in particular. We discuss the notion of objectivity and the role of emotion and fear in research. We take a…
Peter Galison & Sophie Ritson on Imaging the Invisible
This week, Dr Sophie Ritson is in conversation with Professor Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University, a founding member of the Black Hole Initiative, and coordinator of the History, Philosophy and Culture (HPC) Working Group of …
HOW METRICS CAPTURE HUMAN VALUES - C. Thi Nguyen #92
How have metrics surreptitiously replaced our internal value guidance system? How much nuance is lost when we scale collective counting across contexts? How dangerous is data that at first appears independent, whist in fact having heavy value assumptions baked in from that start?
Today we have the …
1. Lorraine Daston on Philology as a Science
In this opening episode of the series, Peter talks to Lorraine Daston about the surprising parallels between philology and sciences like astronomy. Daston argues that philology is not just a science, but an empirical science, and one of the oldest sciences known to humankind.
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