Lorraine Daston to give Raymond F. West Memorial Lecture

Historian of Science Lorraine Daston will deliver the first of two West Memorial Lectures. Her first lecture is entitled, "Science as Pleasure: Enlightenment Seductions." She will give another lecture on Wednesday at 5 p.m. and lead two seminars on pieces from her work-in-progress on Tuesday and Thursday at 4 p.m. All events will take place at the Stanford Humanities Center.

Daston is currently the Director of the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. The author of many wide-ranging essays, her books include "The Moral Authority of Nature" and "Things that Talk." Her "Classical Probability in the Enlightenment" was awarded the Pfizer Prize.