Desde hace miles de años, las reglas ordenan casi todos los aspectos de nuestras vidas y las de nuestros antepasados. Desde siempre han pautado las horas de trabajo, la manera como nos desplazamos y ponemos la mesa, dictaminaban cómo pod&iac...
En muchas culturas y epocas diferentes, se ha considerado a la naturaleza como una fuente de normas para la conducta humana. Durante siglos, los filosofos han insistido en que en la naturaleza no hay valores; esta, sencillamente, es. Transmutar ese &aacut...
In 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...
Regeln ordnen fast jeden Aspekt unseres Lebens. Sie legen unsere Arbeitszeiten fest, bestimmen unser Verhalten im Straßenverkehr und ob es angebracht ist, zur Begrüßung die Hand zu geben oder die Wange hinzuhalten. Regeln organisieren...
Rules 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 organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under...
Rules 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 organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under...
Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, 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...
Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry? Why do some of these objects remain provocative, while others fade from center stage? And why do objects sometimes return as the focus of research long after they were once abandon...
Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic plate...
A collection of essays examining nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge. This work seeks to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality.
Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists...
What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus,"...
This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling...