Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research intersects various areas within the history and philosophy of science, with a particular focus on topics such as the history of science and medicine, philosophy and history of science, and probability and statistical research.

Their recent scholarly papers include the following publications:

• Ground-Zero Empiricism, 2020, Critical Inquiry
• Empiricisms: Experience and Experiment from Antiquity to the Anthropocene, 2022, Common Knowledge
• Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), 2020, Public Culture
• Undead Texts and the Disciplines That Love to Hate Them, 2020, Public Culture
• On the Value of Collective Work and Studying Practices: An Interview, 2020, Philosophical Literary Journal Logos

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Daston include:

• Marc Bloch
• Lucien Febvre Ancien
• Nicolas Barreyre
• Chloe Morgan
• Clémence Peyran

Their work has been published repeatedly in several venues, with notable counts in the following journals:

• Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales (12 publications)
• Critical Inquiry (3 publications)
• Public Culture (2 publications)
• Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (2 publications)
• Common Knowledge (1 publication)

Daston's book publications span several publishers and include titles such as:

• Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition (2023), Princeton University Press
• Rules (2022), Princeton University Press
• Contra la naturaleza (2021), Herder eBooks
• Objectivity (2021), Zone Books

Their research covers multiple main topics including:

• History of Science and Medicine
• Zoonotic diseases and public health
• Probability and Statistical Research
• History of Science and Natural History
• Philosophy and History of Science
• Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
• Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

Lorraine Daston's subfields of study comprise:

• History and Philosophy of Science
• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
• Statistics and Probability
• Economics and Econometrics
• Geography, Planning and Development

Throughout their career, Daston has received several awards including:

• German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften) in 2002 for contributions related to History of Science and Medicine
• Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1994
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993