Lorraine Daston

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|October 10, 2001

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A rich exploration of how European naturalists used wonder and wonders (oddities and marvels) to envision and explain the natural world. Winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Prize"This book is about setting the limits of the natural and the limits…

Rules: A Short History Of What We Live By

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|July 12, 2022

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Classical Probability in the Enlightenment

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|November 5, 1995

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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…

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Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept

Joel Michell

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|July 1, 2005

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This book traces how such a seemingly immutable idea as measurement proved so debatable when it collided with the subject matter of psychology. This book addresses philosophical and social influences (such as scientism, practicalism, and Pythagoreanism) reshaping…

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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career Of Cold War Rationality

Paul Erickson

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|November 17, 2015

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In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its…

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The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism

Robert Alun Jones

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|November 1, 2005

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Drawing on a historicist perspective, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism and argues that it was less a sociological method than a way of speaking and thinking about social phenomena. Using for the first time the newly-discovered…

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Elizabethan Rhetoric: Theory and Practice

Peter Mack

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|October 1, 2005

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In this important contribution to the cultural and educational history of Elizabethan England, Peter Mack examines the impact of humanist training in the use of language on English prose writing. Study of the rhetorical codes and conventions in terms of which the…

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Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism

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|February 2, 2005

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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…

The Moral Authority of Nature

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|December 15, 2003

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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…

The Cambridge History Of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science

Katharine Park

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|September 22, 2016

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Against Nature

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|May 21, 2019

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A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece,…

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