Research

Lorraine Daston has taught at Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Chicago and held visiting positions at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the University of Vienna, Oxford University (Isaiah Berlin Lectures in the History of Ideas), Harvard University, and the University of Chicago. At the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science she has organized research projects on the history of demonstration and proof, the varieties of scientific experience, the moral authority of nature, and the common languages of art and science. She has published widely in the history of statistics and probability theory, early modern natural knowledge, scientific objectivity, and the cognitive passions.

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