Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

World-leading historian Professor Lorraine Daston taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, retiring as a department director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She remains a permanent fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and a visiting professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Prof. Daston has published several profound and influential monographs such as Classical Probability in the Enlightenment (1988), Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750 (co-authored with Katharine Park, 1998), Objectivity (co-authored with Peter Galison, 2007), Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (2022), and Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate (2023), among others. She is also a member or corresponding member of several prestigious learned societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Académie internationale d’Histoire des Sciences (Paris), the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the British Academy. Regarding other honors, Prof. Daston has won the Sarton Medal, the highest honor of the History of Science Society; delivered an Isaiah Berlin Lecture at Oxford University; given a Lawrence Stone Lecture at Princeton University; and recently been awarded the 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science, an equivalent to the Nobel Prize for history. The IHP is honored to welcome Prof. Daston as she gives two lectures and one discussion panel for the 2024 “Fu Ssu-nien Lectures.” (Please see the IHP’s announcement)