Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston (b. June 9, 1951) is an American historian of science, presently 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.

She is married to the German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer.

Bibliography

• Classical Probability and the Enlightenment (1988)
• 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 Moral Authority of Nature (co-editor, 2003)
• Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (2004)
• Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism (co-editor, 2005)
• Objectivity (with Peter Galison, Boston: Zone Books, 2007)
• Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe (co-editor with Michael Stolleis, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008)

External links

• Thinking with Animals
• Things that Talk
• Type Specimens and Scientific Memory in Critical Inquiry
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG)
• Interview with Lorraine Daston ("How To Think About Science" series by CBC Radio, Canada, 52 min, 24 MB)