Theodore M. Porter

University of California, Los Angeles — United States

Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Philosophy and History of Science(38), Economic Theory and Institutions(29), Census and Population Estimation(19), History of Science and Medicine(19), Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice(17)

Publications253 total

Data and Expertise: Some Unanticipated Outcomes
Oxford University Press eBooks·2023
New historical and philosophical perspectives on quantitative genetics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Foreword
Berghahn Books·2022
Shaping the Unruly Statistician
2021Open Access
Objectification and Standardization: On the Limits and Effects of Ritually Fixing and Measuring Life
Carolina Academic Press eBooks·2021· 17 cited
A Plague of Data
Harvard Data Science Review·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Politics by the Numbers 1
2021· 1 cited
Statistics, Social Science, and the Culture of Objectivity
SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Asylum accounts in health and in money
Manchester University Press eBooks·2021
Natural Science and Social Theory
2020· 2 cited
Natural Science and Social Theory
2020· 1 citedOpen Access
CHAPTER TWO. How Social Numbers Are Made Valid
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020
CHAPTER FIVE. Experts against Objectivity: Accountants and Actuaries
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020
Chapter Eight. THE MATHEMATICS OF STATISTICS
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020
CHAPTER SEVEN. U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020
Chapter Five. SOCIAL LAW AND NATURAL SCIENCE
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020
Chapter Six. STATISTICAL LAW AND HUMAN FREEDOM
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020
CHAPTER EIGHT. Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020
CHAPTER NINE. Is Science Made by Communities?
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020
CHAPTER SIX. French State Engineers and the Ambiguities of Technocracy
Princeton University Press eBooks·2020
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Dorothy Ross(3), Gerd Gigerenzer(2), Zeno G. Swijtink(2), Lorraine Daston(2), Lorenz Krüger(2), M. Norton Wise(2), John Beatty(1), Mary S. Morgan(1), Patricia Cline Cohen(1), Andrea Saltelli(1), Gabriele Bammer(1), Isabelle Bruno(1), Érica Charters(1), Monica Di Fiore(1), Emmanuel Didier(1), Wendy Nelson Espeland(1), John E. Kay(1), Samuele Lo Piano(1), Deborah G. Mayo(1), Roger A. Pielke(1)