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The Rise of the New Mandarins: The Story of the Geistkreis from Vienna to the New-World, 1920–1980
This project traces the story of the Viennese Geistkreis. An intellectual circle of (mainly law) students, which was gathered together by two friends—
Generations of Reason
"Generations of Reason" follows the path of reason blazed by three generations of an English family from the middle of the eighteenth to the end of th
Metaphor & Metaphysic: Henri Bergson & the Language of Epistemology in Fin-de-Siècle France
This project is an inquiry into passages between the material and the immaterial, the literal and the figurative, in the development of epistemologica
Gottfried Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant (1672–1679)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was a German polymath, mathematician, linguist, courtier, diplomat, theologian, jurist, and, most famously perha
Dirac, Wheeler, and Quantum Gravity in the 1950s–60s
The project draws on archival material of two prominent figures in the twentieth-century physics, Dirac (1902–1984) and Wheeler (1911–2008). This migh
Organized Wisdom and Revenge of the Humdrum
Right from the beginning, the term "bureaucracy" was a sneer or an accusation, to be contrasted with organized wisdom. Officials concerned with produc
Vierundzwanzig Jahre Geschichte der Rationalität
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Twenty-Four Years of the History of Rationality
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Direktorin emerita Lorraine Daston auf NDR Kultur zu "alternativen Fakten" und Erkenntnisgewinn
Zum Audio-Beitrag (auf Deutsch)Director emerita Lorraine Daston in NDR Kultur on scientific knowledge, "alternative facts," and truth
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