Lorraine Daston
Emeritus Scientific Member
Raum H5/003
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Selected Publications
Daston, Lorraine (2023). Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate. New York, NY: Columbia Global Reports.
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Daston, Lorraine (2022). Rules: A Short History of What We Live By. The Lawrence Stone Lectures 23. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691239187.
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Daston, Lorraine (2019). Against Nature. Untimely Meditations. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Daston, Lorraine and Peter Harrison (2024). “The Missing Conversation.” Aeon (blog), January 1, 2024. https://aeon.co/essays/science-and-history-cannot-afford-to-be-indifferent-to-each-other.
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Daston, Lorraine (2024). “Perspectives all the Way Down. Review of: Lloyd, Geoffrey and Aparecida Vilaça: Of Jaguars and Butterflies: Metalogues on Issues in Anthropology and Philosophy. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2023.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 49 (1): 157–164. https://doi.org/10.1177/03080188241229840.
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Daston, Lorraine (2024). “Unicorn or Narwhal? Review of: Broberg, Gunnar: The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2023.” London Review of Books 46 (4): 31–32. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n04/lorraine-daston/unicorn-or-narwhal.
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Daston, Lorraine (2023). “The Virtue of Discretion.” Aeon (blog), April 21, 2023. https://aeon.co/essays/discretion-is-hard-to-live-with-even-harder-to-live-without.
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Daston, Lorraine (2023). “What Is Scientific Truth — And Why Does It Keep Changing?” Marginalia Review of Books (blog), April 28, 2023. https://www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/what-is-scientific-truth-and-why-does-it-keep-changing.
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Daston, Lorraine (2022). “Das geistige Auge.”. In Vollendete Tatsachen: vom endgültig Vorläufigen und vorläufig Endgültigen in der Wissenschaft, ed. C. v. Xylander and A. Nordmann, 191–216. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
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Daston, Lorraine (2022). “The Secret History of Science and Modernity: The History of Science and the History of Religion.” Grey Room 88: 14–31. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00347.
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Daston, Lorraine (2020). “The Accidental Trace and the Science of the Future: Tales from the Nineteenth-Century Archives.”. In Photo-Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photo Archives in the Humanities and Sciences, ed. J. Bärnighausen, C. Caraffa, S. Klamm, F. Schneider, and P. Wodtke, 83–100. Berlin: Edition Open Access. https://doi.org/10.34663/9783945561409-05.
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Daston, Lorraine (2021). Contra la naturaleza. Barcelona: Herder Editorial.
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Daston, Lorraine (2019). “The coup d’oeil: On a Mode of Understanding.” Critical Inquiry 45 (2): 307–331. https://doi.org/10.1086/700990.
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Daston, Lorraine (2017). “The History of Science and the History of Knowledge.” KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 1 (1): 131–154. https://doi.org/10.1086/691678.
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Daston, Lorraine (2016). “History of science without ‘Structure.’”. In Kuhn’s ‘Structure of scientific revolutions’ at fifty : reflections on a science classic, ed. R. J. Richards and L. Daston, 115–132. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
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Daston, Lorraine (2016). “Cloud physiognomy.” Representations 135 (1): 45–71. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2016.135.1.45.
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Daston, Lorraine (2016). “Authenticity, autopsia, and Theodor Mommsen’s Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.”. In For the sake of learning : essays in honor of Anthony Grafton. Vol. 2, ed. A. Blair and A.-S. Goeing, 955–973. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004263314_054.
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Daston, Lorraine (2016). “When science went modern.” The Hedgehog Review 18 (3). https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-cultural-contradictions-of-modern-science/articles/when-science-went-modern.
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Daston, Lorraine (2015). “Epistemic images.”. In Vision and its instruments : art, science, and technology in early modern Europe, ed. A. Payne, 13–35. University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University Press.
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Daston, Lorraine (2014). “The naturalistic fallacy is modern.” Isis 105 (3): 579–587. https://doi.org/10.1086/678173.
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Erickson, Paul, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm, and Michael D. Gordin (2013). How reason almost lost its mind : the strange career of Cold War rationality. Chicago [u.a.]: The University of Chicago Press.
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Daston, Lorraine (2012). “The sciences of the archive.” Osiris 27 (1): 156–187. https://doi.org/10.1086/667826.
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Daston, Lorraine (2008). “On scientific observation.” Isis 99 (1): 97–110. https://doi.org/10.1086/587535.
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