Rules Rule: From Enlightenment Reason
to Cold War Rationality
Monday 12 November, 2012
6:15pm, $0
Columbia University, The Heyman Center
2960 Broadway, Floor 2 (Common Room)
This talk by Lorraine Daston, the Executive Director of the
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, will chart the rise of the algorithm as the backbone of rationality in post-World War II America, in contrast to earlier concepts of both reason and rules.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, will chart the rise of the algorithm as the backbone of rationality in post-World War II America, in contrast to earlier concepts of both reason and rules.