{"title":"Lorraine Daston","description":"\u003cp\u003eLorraine Daston's works explore the intricate relationships between knowledge, perception, and the natural world. Her books delve into themes of \u003cem\u003eobjectivity\u003c\/em\u003e, classification, and the historical evolution of scientific understanding, offering a profound reflection on how humans make sense of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful studies that cross philosophy, science, and history, illuminating the rules and wonders that have shaped intellectual traditions from medieval times to the modern age. Daston's scholarship invites contemplation on the frameworks that govern both thought and discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"objectivity-by-lorraine-daston-9781890951795","title":"Objectivity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences is revealed through images in scientific atlases—a story of how lofty epistemic ideals fuse with workaday practices. \u003cem\u003eObjectivity\u003c\/em\u003e has a history, and it is full of surprises. In \u003cem\u003eObjectivity\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 scientific atlases, the compendia that teach practitioners what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Galison and Daston use atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas maker idealises an image to capture the essentials in the name of truth-to-nature, refuses to erase even the most incidental detail in the name of objectivity, or highlights patterns in the name of trained judgment, is a decision enforced by an ethos as well as by an epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Daston and Galison argue, atlases shape the subjects as well as the objects of science. To pursue objectivity—or truth-to-nature or trained judgment—is simultaneously to cultivate a distinctive scientific self wherein knowing and knower converge. Moreover, the very point at which they visibly converge is in the very act of seeing not as a separate individual but as a member of a particular scientific community. Embedded in the atlas image, therefore, are the traces of consequential choices about knowledge, persona, and collective sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eObjectivity\u003c\/em\u003e is a book addressed to anyone interested in the elusive and crucial notion of objectivity—and in what it means to peer into the world scientifically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45880550424812,"sku":"9781890951795","price":76.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781890951795.jpg?v=1730859334"},{"product_id":"rules-by-lorraine-daston-9780691254081","title":"Rules","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA panoramic history of rules in the Western world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organise the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don't, yet no culture could do without them. In \u003ci\u003eRules\u003c\/i\u003e, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the Western tradition and shows how rules have evolved from ancient to modern times. Drawing on a rich trove of examples, including legal treatises, cookbooks, military manuals, traffic regulations, and game handbooks, Daston demonstrates that while the content of rules is dazzlingly diverse, the forms that they take are surprisingly few and long-lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDaston uncovers three enduring kinds of rules: the algorithms that calculate and measure, the laws that govern, and the models that teach. She vividly illustrates how rules can change—how supple rules stiffen, or vice versa, and how once bothersome regulations become everyday norms. Rules have been devised for almost every imaginable activity and range from meticulous regulations to the laws of nature. Daston probes beneath this variety to investigate when rules work and when they don't, and why some philosophical problems about rules are as ancient as philosophy itself while others are as modern as calculating machines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRules\u003c\/i\u003e offers a wide-angle view on the history of the constraints that guide us—whether we know it or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fascinating...[Daston] writes with a twinkling wit.' — Timothy Farrington, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In considering a series of historic anecdotes and texts, Daston helps us see rules (and their neighbours, such as laws and regulations) through the concepts of thickness and thinness, paradigms and algorithms, failures (it was nearly impossible to get eighteenth-century Parisians to stop playing ball in the streets), and states of exception...By the end of Daston's book, one feels a sense of clarity about how to think about rules, alongside a gentle sense of despair concerning what kinds of rules to hope for.' — Rivka Galchen, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849946583276,"sku":"9780691254081","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2527953482434.jpg?v=1759065000"},{"product_id":"rules-by-lorraine-daston-9780691156989","title":"Rules","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA panoramic history of rules in the Western world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRules order almost every aspect of our lives. 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Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, and celestial apparitions adorned romances and puzzled philosophers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, this book explores and explains how wonder and wonders fortified princely power, rewove the texture of scientific experience, and shaped the sensibility of intellectuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455882576108,"sku":"9780942299915","price":105.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780942299915.jpg?v=1774863054"},{"product_id":"rivals-by-lorraine-daston-9798987053560","title":"Rivals","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy is the scientific community so unified?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the last 350-odd years, the international 'scientific community' has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did 'the scientific community' come into existence, and why does it work?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRivals\u003c\/em\u003e is an attempt to answer these questions in the form of a brief historical overview, from the late seventeenth to the early twenty-first centuries, through the creation of two enormous projects - the Carte du Ciel, or the great star map, and the International Cloud Atlas, pioneered by the World Meteorological Organization after World War II. These new models of intergovernmental collaboration and global observation networks would later make the mounting evidence of planetary phenomena like climate change possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing upon original documents stored in Paris, Geneva, and Uppsala, historian of science Lorraine Daston offers a fascinating, lively study of successful and unsuccessful scientific collaborations. \u003cem\u003eRivals\u003c\/em\u003e is indispensable both as history and as guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487486689516,"sku":"9798987053560","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f212387432ec7c856f896b7f3f56574a.jpg?v=1775775775"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/lorraine-daston.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}