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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
No 64
Ein Seefahrer richtet seinen Kurs nach den Sternen; ein Weber bepannt seinen Webstuhl nach einem komplizierten Muster aus Farben und Formen; ein Stadtbeamter erkennt die Verbindung zwischen einem bestimmten Brunnen und dem Ausbruch einer Epidemie; ein Braumeister korrigiert seine Zutaten, um die Gärung zu beschleunigen; ein Höfling leitet aus einem Blickwechsel eine königliche Intrige ab; ein Bürokrat organisiert das Steuersystem eines Reiches; ein Kräuterkundler identifiziert eine Pflanze, die Wunden heilt.
Twenty-Four Years of the History of Rationality
No 64
A navigator fixes a course by the stars; a weaver strings a loom with an intricate pattern of colors and shapes; a city official discerns a link between a certain well and the outbreak of an epidemic; a brewer adjusts ingredients to speed up fermentation; a courtier infers a royal intrigue from an exchange of glances; a bureaucrat organizes the tax system of an empire; a herbalist identifies a plant that heals wounds.
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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