Rules [electronic resource] : A Short History of What We Live By
Daston, Lorraine2022
eBook
-- Rules 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. Rules offers a wide-angle view on the history of the constraints that guide us—whether we know it or not.
Main title:
Rules [electronic resource] : A Short History of What We Live By / Daston, Lorraine.
Author:
Daston, Lorraine, authorCloud
Imprint:
[S.l.] : Princeton University Press, 2022.
Collation:
1 online resource384 p.
Series:
The Lawrence Stone Lectures
Notes:
Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Princeton University Press 2022 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: cloudLibrary (file size: 39.0 MB)
ISBN:
9780691239187
Language:
English
BRN:
748145