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Product Description: 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 and trained judgment...read more
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9781890951788 | 1 edition (Zone Books, October 31, 2007), cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises.

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Product Description: Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be...read more
By Lorraine Daston (editor)
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9781890951436 | Zone Books, June 1, 2004, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Imagine a world without things.

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9781890951443 | Zone Books, November 30, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Imagine a world without things.

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Product Description: This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century; the debates that informed developments in those fields drew heavily on theology and moral philosophy, and vice versa...read more
By Lorraine Daston (editor) and Michael Stolleis (editor)
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9780754657613 | Ashgate Pub Co, December 22, 2008, cover price $134.95 | About this edition: This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe.

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Product Description: 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 and researchers included, continue to see animals as humans and humans as animals...read more
By Lorraine Daston (editor) and Gregg Mitman (editor)
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9780231130387 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 30, 2005, cover price $77.50 | About this edition: Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin?

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9780231130394 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 15, 2006, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin?

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By Lorraine Daston (editor) and Christoph Engel (editor)
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9783832921439 | Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co, September 1, 2006, cover price $94.00

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Product Description: This volume is a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, ca. 1500-1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history and mathematics...read more
By Lorraine Daston (editor) and Roy Porter (editor)
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9780521572446 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2006, cover price $225.00 | About this edition: This volume is a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, ca.

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Product Description: What are the relationships between philosophy and the history of philosophy, the history of science and the philosophy of science? Walter de Gruyter - Why Does History Matter to Philosophy and the Sciences? This selection of essays by Lorenz Kruger (1932-1994) presents exemplary studies on the philosophy of John Locke and Immanuel Kant, on the history of physics and on the scope and limitations of scientific explanation, and a realistic understanding of science and truth...read more
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9783110180428 | Walter De Gruyter Inc, February 28, 2005, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: What are the relationships between philosophy and the history of philosophy, the history of science and the philosophy of science?

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By Benjamin R. Barber (contributor), T. J. Clark (contributor), Lorraine Daston (contributor), Michael Fried (contributor), Frank Kermode (contributor), Martha C. Nussbaum, Derek Parfit (contributor), Grethe B. Peterson (editor), Salman Rushdie (editor), Laurence H. Tribe (contributor) and Garry Wills (contributor)
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9780874807950 | Univ of Utah Pr, June 24, 2004, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780226136806 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments.

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9780226136813 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments.

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Product Description: Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780942299908, titled "Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150-1750" | Zone Books, May 8, 1998, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment.

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9780942299915 | Zone Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits of the known, wonders and wonder, from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment.

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Product Description: 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 abandoned?Addressing such questions, Biographies of Scientific Objects is about how whole domains of phenomena—dreams, atoms, monsters, culture, society, mortality, centers of gravity, value, cytoplasmic particles, the self, tuberculosis—come into being and sometimes pass away as objects of scientific study...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Lorraine Daston (editor)
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9780226136707 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 15, 2000, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry?

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9780226136721 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 15, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Why does an object or phenomenon become the subject of scientific inquiry?

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Product Description: 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," in Laplace's words...read more
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9780691084978 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason?

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9780691006444 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, October 16, 1995), cover price $57.50 | About this edition: What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason?

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