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  1. Objectivity.Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison - 2007 - Cambridge, Mass.: Zone Books. Edited by Peter Galison.
    Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences--and show how the concept differs from its alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images. From the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, the images that reveal the deepest commitments of the empirical sciences--from anatomy to crystallography--are those featured in (...)
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    The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life.Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter, Lorraine Daston, John Beatty & Lorenz Kruger - 1990 - Cambridge University Press.
    The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact in biology, physics and psychology. Themes recur - determinism, inference, causality, free will, evidence, the shifting meaning of probability - but (...)
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  3. Histories of scientific observation.Lorraine Daston & Elizabeth Lunbeck (eds.) - 2011 - London: University of Chicago Press.
    This book makes a compelling case for the significance of the long, surprising, and epistemologically significant history of scientific observation, a history ...
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    Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750.Lorraine Daston - 1998 - Zone Books.
    Wonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions---these were the marvels that adorned romances, puzzled philosophers, lured collectors, and frightened the devout. Drawing on the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park explore and explain (...)
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    Biographies of Scientific Objects.Lorraine Daston (ed.) - 2000 - University of Chicago Press.
    Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry? Why do some of these objects remain provocative, while others fade from center stage? And why do objects sometimes return as the focus of research long after they were once abandoned? Addressing such questions, _Biographies of Scientific Objects_ is about how whole domains of phenomena—dreams, atoms, monsters, culture, society, mortality, centers of gravity, value, cytoplasmic particles, the self, tuberculosis—come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific (...)
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  6. The moral economy of science.Lorraine Daston - 1995 - Osiris 10:3--24.
  7. The empire of observation, 1600-1800.Lorraine Daston - 2011 - In Lorraine Daston & Elizabeth Lunbeck (eds.), Histories of scientific observation. London: University of Chicago Press.
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    (3 other versions)Science Studies and the History of Science.Lorraine Daston - 2009 - Critical Inquiry 35 (4):798.
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  9. Marvelous Facts and Miraculous Evidence in Early Modern Europe.Lorraine Daston - 1991 - Critical Inquiry 18 (1):93-124.
    I have sketched the well-known distinction between facts and evidence not to defend or attack it , but rather as a preface to a key episode in the history of the conceptual categories of fact and evidence. My question is neither, “Do neutral facts exist?” nor “How does evidence prove or disprove?” but rather, “How did our current conceptions of neutral facts and enlisted evidence, and the distinction between them, come to be?” How did evidence come to be incompatible with (...)
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  10. Historical epistemology.Lorraine Daston - 1994 - In James K. Chandler, Arnold Ira Davidson & Harry D. Harootunian (eds.), Questions of evidence: proof, practice, and persuasion across the disciplines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 282--289.
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    On Scientific Observation.Lorraine Daston - 2008 - Isis 99 (1):97-110.
    For much of the last forty years, certain shared epistemological concerns have guided research in both the history and the philosophy of science: the testing of theory , the assessment of evidence, the bearing of theoretical and metaphysical assumptions on the reality of scientific objects, and, above all, the interaction of subjective and objective factors in scientific inquiry. This essay proposes a turn toward ontology—more specifically, toward the ontologies created and sustained by scientific observation. Such a shift in focus would (...)
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    Ground-Zero Empiricism.Lorraine Daston - 2021 - Critical Inquiry 47 (S2):S55-S57.
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    Introduction: Scientific Personae and Their Histories.Lorraine Daston & H. Otto Sibum - 2003 - Science in Context 16 (1-2):1-8.
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    (1 other version)The moral authority of nature.Lorraine Daston & Fernando Vidal (eds.) - 2004 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. The Moral Authority of Nature offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of (...)
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    Type Specimens and Scientific Memory.Lorraine Daston - 2004 - Critical Inquiry 31 (1):153.
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  16. The Ideal and Reality of the Republic of Letters in the Enlightenment.Lorraine Daston - 1991 - Science in Context 4 (2):367-386.
    The ArgumentThe Republic of Letters of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries teaches us two lessons about style in science. First, the bearer of style—individual, nation, institution, religious group, region, class—depends crucially on historical context. When the organization and values of intellectual life are self-consciously cosmopolitan, and when allegiances to other entities are culturally more compelling than those to the nation-state, distinctivelynationalstyles are far to seek. This was largely the case for the Republic of Letters, that immaterial but nonetheless real (...)
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  17. Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism.Lorraine Daston & Gregg Mitman - 2005 - Journal of the History of Biology 38 (3):624-626.
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    (1 other version)The Factual Sensibility.Lorraine Daston - 1988 - Isis 79:452-467.
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    Taking Note.Lorraine Daston - 2004 - Isis 95 (3):443-448.
    Because reading was and remains a central aspect of doing science, reading practices may provide insights into cognitive practices—such as observation, economies of attention, arts of memory, and the solidification and erosion of belief—in the context of science. Reading has since ancient times been the model for all forms of understanding and possibly also the template upon which other ways of making the world intelligible were formed. Reading practices may also provide keys to the formation of the specifically scientific self, (...)
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    History of Science and History of Philologies.Lorraine Daston & Glenn W. Most - 2015 - Isis 106 (2):378-390.
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    Enlightenment Calculations.Lorraine Daston - 1994 - Critical Inquiry 21 (1):182-202.
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    Against nature.Lorraine Daston - 2019 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
    The problem -- Specific natures -- Local natures -- Universal natural laws -- The passions of the unnatural -- The very idea of order -- The plenitude of orders -- Saving the phenomena.
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    Things That Talk: Object Lessons From Art and Science.Lorraine Daston (ed.) - 2004 - Cambridge, Mass.: Zone Books.
    Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality. True to the particularity of things, each of the essays singles out one object for close attention: a Bosch (...)
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    British Responses to Psycho-Physiology, 1860-1900.Lorraine Daston - 1978 - Isis 69 (2):192-208.
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    The Physicalist Tradition in Early Nineteenth Century French Geometry.Lorraine J. Daston - 1986 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 17 (3):269.
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    Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe: Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral and Natural Philosophy.Michael Stolleis & Lorraine Daston - 2008 - Routledge.
    This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of jurisprudence and science in early modern Europe. Taking an interdisciplinary approach these articles stimulate new debate in the areas of intellectual history and the history of philosophy, as well as the natural and human sciences in general.
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    The Naturalistic Fallacy Is Modern.Lorraine Daston - 2014 - Isis 105 (3):579-587.
    The naturalistic fallacy appears to be ubiquitous and irresistible. The avant-garde and the rearguard, the devout and the secular, the learned elite and the lay public all seem to want to enlist nature on their side, everywhere and always. Yet a closer look at the history of the term “naturalistic fallacy” and its associated arguments suggests that this way of understanding appeals to nature’s authority in human affairs is of relatively modern origin. To apply this category cross-historically masks considerable variability (...)
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    The Probabilistic Revolution, Volume 1.Lorenz Krüger, Lorraine J. Daston & Michael Heidelberger (eds.) - 1987 - Mit Press: Cambridge.
    Preface to Volumes 1 and 2 Lorenz Krüger xv Introduction to Volume 1 Lorraine J. Daston 1 I Revolution 1 What Are Scientific Revolutions? Thomas S. Kuhn 7 2 Scientific Revolutions, Revolutions in Science, and a Probabilistic Revolution 1800-1930 I. Bernard Cohen 23 3 Was There a Probabilistic Revolution 1800-1930? Ian Hacking 45 II Concepts 4 The Slow Rise of Probabilism: Philosophical Arguments in the Nineteenth Century Lorenz Krüger 59 5 The Decline of the Laplacian Theory of Probability: A Study (...)
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  29. Why Does History Matter to Philosophy and the Sciences?: Selected Essays.Lorenz Krüger, Thomas Sturm, Wolfgang Carl & Lorraine Daston (eds.) - 2005 - Walter DeGruyter.
    What are the relationships between philosophy and the history of philosophy, the history of science and the philosophy of science? This selection of essays by Lorenz Krüger (1932-1994) presents exemplary studies on the philosophy of John Locke and Immanuel Kant, on the history of physics and on the scope and limitations of scientific explanation, and a realistic understanding of science and truth. In his treatment of leading currents in 20th century philosophy, Krüger presents new and original arguments for a deeper (...)
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    Scientific error and the ethos of belief.Lorraine Daston - 2005 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 72 (1):1-28.
  31. Introduction. Doing what comes naturally.Lorraine Daston & Fernando Vidal - 2004 - In Lorraine Daston & Fernando Vidal (eds.), The moral authority of nature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 1--23.
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    Objectivity versus truth.Lorraine Daston - 2001 - Daimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 24:11-22.
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    Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions at fifty: reflections on a science classic.Robert J. Richards & Lorraine Daston (eds.) - 2016 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the “paradigm shift,” social and psychological considerations into the heart of the scientific process. More than fifty years after its publication, Kuhn’s work continues to influence thinkers in a wide range of fields, including scientists, historians, and sociologists. It is clear that The Structure (...)
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    Introduction.Lorraine Daston & Michael Otte - 1991 - Science in Context 4 (2):223-232.
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    The Naturalized Female Intellect.Lorraine Daston - 1992 - Science in Context 5 (2):209-235.
    The ArgumentNaturalization confers authority on beliefs, conventions, and claims, but what kind of authority? Because the meaning of nature has a history, so does that of naturalization:naturalization is not the same tactic when marshaled in, say, eighteenth-century France and in late nineteenth-century Britain. Although the authority of nature may be invoked in both cases, the import of that authority depends crucially on whether nature is understood normatively or descriptively, within the framework of the natural laws of jurisprudence or within that (...)
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    Ian Macdougall Hacking (1936–2023).Lorraine Daston - 2024 - Isis 115 (1):170-174.
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    A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-century England by Steven Shapin. [REVIEW]Lorraine Daston - 1995 - Journal of Philosophy 92 (7):388-392.
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    Enlightenment Fears, Fears of Enlightenment.Lorraine Daston - 2001 - In Keith Michael Baker & Peter Hanns Reill (eds.), What's left of Enlightenment?: a postmodern question. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. pp. 115-128.
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    Galilean Analogies: Imagination at the Bounds of Sense.Lorraine Daston - 1984 - Isis 75:302-310.
  40. Probability and Evidence.Lorraine Daston - 1998 - In Daniel Garber & Michael Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1108--1144.
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    The Coup d’Oeil: On a Mode of Understanding.Lorraine Daston - 2019 - Critical Inquiry 45 (2):307-331.
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    Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes on Imagination and Analogy.Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison - 1984 - Isis 75:287-289.
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    Enlightenment now concluding reflections on knowledge and belief.Mary B. Campbell, Lorraine Daston, Arnold Ira Davidson, John Forrester & Simon Goldhill - 2007 - Common Knowledge 13 (2-3):429-450.
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    History of Science in an Elegiac Mode: E. A. Burtt's Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science Revisited.Lorraine Daston - 1991 - Isis 82 (3):522-531.
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    (1 other version)The Humboldtian Gaze.Lorraine Daston - 2010 - In Moritz Epple & Claus Zittel (eds.), Science as Cultural Practice: Vol. I: Cultures and Politics of Research From the Early Modern Period to the Age of Extremes. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. pp. 45-60.
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  46. Biographies of Scientific Objects. [REVIEW]Lorraine Daston - 2002 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 23 (3/4):551-551.
    Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry? Why do some of these objects remain provocative, while others fade from center stage? And why do objects sometimes return as the focus of research long after they were once abandoned? Addressing such questions, _Biographies of Scientific Objects_ is about how whole domains of phenomena—dreams, atoms, monsters, culture, society, mortality, centers of gravity, value, cytoplasmic particles, the self, tuberculosis—come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific (...)
     
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    Simon and the Sirens: A Commentary.Lorraine Daston - 2015 - Isis 106 (3):669-676.
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    Comment.Lorraine Daston - 2004 - Teaching New Histories of Philosophy:307-315.
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    Whither "Critical Inquiry?".Lorraine Daston - 2004 - Critical Inquiry 30 (2):361-364.
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  50. Early modern writing and the new philosophy.J. W. Binns, Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park, Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers, Glyn P. Norton & Charles B. Schmitt - 1992 - Journal of the History of Ideas 53:541-51.
     
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