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Against Nature by Lorraine Daston
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Untimely Meditations Ser.
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America ...Show more
Objectivity by Lorraine J. Daston
Category: History | Series: Zone Bks.
Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences -- and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty e ...Show more
Rivals - How Scientists Learned to Cooperate by Lorraine Daston
Category: Other Science
In the last 350-odd years, the international "scientific community" has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change and a deadly pandemic. How did the "scientific community" come into existence, and why does it work? Ri ...Show more
Rules - A Short History of What We Live By by Lorraine Daston
Category: World History | Series: The\Lawrence Stone Lectures
Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have and yearn for ones we don't, yet no culture could do ...Show more
Things That Talk: Object Lessons From Art And Science by Lorraine J. Daston
Category: History
Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.
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