Rules a short history of what we live by

By:

Daston, Lorraine

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford Princeton University Press 2022Description: xi,349pISBN:

978-0691156989

DDC classification:

303.36DAS

Summary: Daston uncovers three enduring kinds of rules: the algorithms that calculate and measure, the laws that govern, and the models that teach. She vividly illustrates how rules can change―how supple rules stiffen, or vice versa, and how once bothersome regulations become everyday norms. Rules have been devised for almost every imaginable activity and range from meticulous regulations to the laws of nature. Daston probes beneath this variety to investigate when rules work and when they don?t, and why some philosophical problems about rules are as ancient as philosophy itself while others are as modern as calculating machines.

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Daston uncovers three enduring kinds of rules: the algorithms that calculate and measure, the laws that govern, and the models that teach. She vividly illustrates how rules can change―how supple rules stiffen, or vice versa, and how once bothersome regulations become everyday norms. Rules have been devised for almost every imaginable activity and range from meticulous regulations to the laws of nature. Daston probes beneath this variety to investigate when rules work and when they don?t, and why some philosophical problems about rules are as ancient as philosophy itself while others are as modern as calculating machines.

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