Lorraine Daston: "Rules Rule: From Enlightenment Reason to Cold War Rationality"

Lorraine Daston: "Rules Rule: From Enlightenment Reason to Cold War Rationality"

Apr 25, 2011, 06:00 PM - 12:00 AM | Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center | Happening As Scheduled
Lorraine Daston, Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Lorraine Daston is Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She has published on a wide range of topics in the history of science, including probability and statistics, evidence, wonder and curiosity, the moral authority of nature, anthropomorphism, and scientific images. Her...