Lorraine Daston
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Lorraine Daston (a.k.a. "Raine") is the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993, Daston balances her time in Germany with a visiting professorship in The Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Daston's work has long defined the cutting edge of research into the history of science. Her many publications include Classical Probability and the Enlightenment (1988); Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150 - 1750 (with Katherine 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 Moral Authority of Nature (co-editor, 2003); Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (2004); and Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism (co-editor, 2005).
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- Thinking with Animals
- Things that Talk
- Critical Inquiry article
- Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
- Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG)
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