Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science, is the executive director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, and holds a visiting professorship in The Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Ideas on the Nature of Science
interviewer David Cayley
If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything was subject to science, but science itself has largely escaped scrutiny. In this fascinating collection of interviews, CBC Radio’s Ideas produce …
Ideas on the Nature of Science
interviewer David Cayley
If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything was subject to science, but science itself has largely escaped scrutiny. In this fascinating collection of interviews, CBC Radios Ideas producer …
