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{{Short description|American historian and philosopher of science}}
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| image = Peter Galison, HSS 2007.jpg
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| education = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of
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| employer = [[Harvard University]]▼
"Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps" (2003)<br>▼
▲| notable_works = ''Image and Logic'' (1997)<br>
▲"Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps"(2003)<br>
''Objectivity'' (2007)
| doctoral_students = [[Alex Wellerstein]]
| discipline = [[Philosophy]], [[history]]
| sub_discipline = [[History of science]], [[philosophy of science]]
| birth_date = May 17, 1955
| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
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'''Peter Louis Galison''' (born May 17, 1955
==Biography==
Galison received his
Before moving to Harvard, Galison taught for several years at [[Stanford University]], where he was professor of history, philosophy, and physics. He is considered a member of the [[Stanford School]] of philosophy of science, a group that also includes [[Ian Hacking]], [[John Dupré]], and [[Nancy Cartwright (philosopher)|Nancy Cartwright]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cartwright |first=Nancy |title=The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-521-64336-8 |location=Cambridge |page=ix |language=en}}</ref>
Galison developed a film for the [[History (U.S. TV channel)|History Channel]] on the development of the [[hydrogen bomb]], and has done work on the intersection of science with other disciplines, in particular [[art]] (along with his wife, [[Caroline A. Jones]]) and [[architecture]]. He is on the editorial board of ''[[Critical Inquiry]]'' and was a [[MacArthur Fellow]] in
==Philosophical work==
In ''Image and Logic'', Galison explored the fundamental rift rising in the physical sciences: whether singular, visual accounts of scientific phenomena would be accepted as the dominant language of proof, or whether statistically significant, frequently repeated results would dominate the field. This division, Galison claims, can be seen in the conflicts amongst high-energy physicists investigating new particles, some of whom offer up statistically significant and frequently replicated analysis of the new particle passing through electric fields, others of whom offer up a single picture of a particle behaving—in a single instance—in a way that cannot be explained by the characteristics of existing known particles. This image/logic distinction has been applied to explore the development of other disciplines, for example, archaeology.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marwick |first1=Ben |title=Galisonian logic devices and data availability: revitalising Upper Palaeolithic cultural taxonomies |journal=Antiquity |date=15 October 2019 |volume=93 |issue=371 |pages=1365–1367 |doi=10.15184/aqy.2019.131|s2cid=211672039 |url=http://osf.io/v8dej/ }}</ref>
His work with [[Lorraine Daston]] developed the concept of [[mechanical objectivity]] which is often used in scholarly literature, and he has done pioneering work on applying the anthropological notion of [[trading zones]] to scientific practice.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schmidt |first1=Sophie C. |last2=Marwick |first2=Ben |title=Tool-Driven Revolutions in Archaeological Science |journal=Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology |date=28 January 2020 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=18–32 |doi=10.5334/jcaa.29|doi-access=free }}</ref>
== Documentary films ==
Galison has been involved in the production of
Galison's fourth documentary, ''Black Holes: The Edge of
== Bibliography==
* {{cite book | last = Galison | first = Peter | title = How experiments end | publisher = [[University of Chicago Press]] | location = Chicago, Illinois | year = 1987 | isbn =
* {{cite book | last1 = Galison | first1 = Peter | last2 = Hevly | first2 = Bruce | title = Big science: the growth of large-scale research | publisher = [[Stanford University Press]] | location = Stanford, California | year = 1992 | isbn =
* {{cite book | last1 = Galison | first1 = Peter | last2 = Stump | first2 = David J. | title = The disunity of science: boundaries, contexts, and power | publisher = [[Stanford University Press]] | location = Stanford, California | year = 1996 | isbn =
* {{cite book | last = Galison | first = Peter | title = Image and logic: a material culture of microphysics | publisher = [[University of Chicago Press]] | location = Chicago, Illinois | year = 1997 | isbn =
* {{cite book | last1 = Galison | first1 = Peter | last2 = Jones | first2 = Caroline A. | title = Picturing science, producing art | publisher = Routledge | location = New York, New York | year = 1998 | isbn =
* {{cite book | last = Galison | first = Peter | title = Einstein's clocks and Poincaré's maps: empires of time | publisher = W.W. Norton | location = New York, New York | year = 2003 | isbn =
* {{cite book | last1 = Galison | first1 = Peter | last2 = Daston | first2 = Lorraine | title = Objectivity | publisher = Zone Books Distributed by the [[MIT Press]] | location = New York Cambridge, Massachusetts | year = 2007 | isbn =
* {{cite book | last1 = Galison | first1 = Peter | last2 = Holton | first2 = Gerald | last3 = Schweber | first3 = Silvan S. | author-link2 = Gerald Holton | title = Einstein for the 21st century: his legacy in science, art, and modern culture | publisher = [[Princeton University Press]] | location = Princeton, New Jersey | year = 2008 | isbn =
==Filmography==
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*''[[Secrecy (film)|Secrecy]]'' (2008) Producer/Director (with [[Robb Moss]]), 85 minutes. Premiere: The Sundance Film Festival (2008).
*''Containment'' (2015) Producer/Director (with [[Robb Moss]]), 81 minutes. Premiere: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina (2015).
*''Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know'' (2021) Director, 99 minutes.
==References==
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*[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/bios/galison.html Galison's history of science homepage]
*[http://physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/galison.html Galison's physics homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628142055/http://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/galison.html |date=2006-06-28 }}
*[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/bios/galison-nytimes.html Article about Galison from the ''New York Times'']
*[http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay-einsteins-time.htm Interview with Galison about his Einstein book] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312163833/http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay-einsteins-time.htm |date=2015-03-12 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060203151726/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/daily/2006/01/24-uniprof.html Galison appointed University Professor Harvard Gazette]
* {{imdb name|2871432}}
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