Daston, born in 1951, is an American-born scholar who serves as director emerita at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She has been teaching at the University of Chicago ...

The winners in three categories were announced on Wednesday in Tel Aviv University. Daston receives the $ 1 million award (more than € 800,000) for her groundbreaking historical work on the "ideas and ...

Lorraine Daston, a visiting professor in UChicago’s John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and the Department of History, has been awarded the Dan David Prize for her achievements in the research of ...

All scientists think they know what objectivity is. But objectivity has a history full of fascinating changes of sense, and now bears several different meanings. Most involve an absence: of distortion ...

* Originally published on December 5, 2019. Why do human beings across cultures and throughout history insist on using nature as a guide for our behaviour, our politics, our moral and ethical systems?

Prologue: objectivity shock -- I. Epistemologies of the eye: Blind sight -- Collective empiricism -- Objectivity is new -- Histories of the scientific self -- Epistemic virtues -- The argument -- ...