Perelman Seminar with Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston (Director emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) will give an exceptional « Perelman Seminar ». The seminar will be devoted to the discussion of her book Rules. A Short History of What We Live By (Princeton University Press, 2022). Participation to this seminar is free of charge but registration is mandatory by completing this form.

Lorraine Daston has published on a wide range of topics in the history of science, including the history of probability and statistics, wonders in early modern science, the emergence of the scientific fact, scientific models, objects of scientific inquiry, the moral authority of nature, and the history of scientific objectivity. Her books include Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (1988), Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750 (with Katharine Park, 1998), Objectivity (with Peter Galison, 2007), Against Nature (2019). She is the recipient of the Pfizer Prize and Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society, the Schelling Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Lichtenberg Medal of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences, the Luhmann Prize of the University of Bielefeld, and honorary doctorates from Princeton University and the Hebrew University. In 2018 she was awarded the Dan David Prize in the History of Science.