16 September 2025

A new Balzan Digital Paper

An interview with Lorraine Daston by Luca Sciortino in the category "History of Sciences and Ideas"

For a History of Human Rationality: An Interview with Lorraine Daston, 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science

by Luca Sciortino

In his interview with Prizewinner Lorraine Daston (2024 History of Science), Luca Sciortino explores the central questions of her work, illustrating her vision of the history of science while expanding and clarifying some of her research findings to shed light on problems that afflict humanity today.

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