HISTSCI 2883: Automating Knowledge | Department of the History of Science

Semester: Spring

Year offered: 2026

Link: Course Website

This course will consider the long history of attempts to invent methods and machines for producing, justifying, and judging claims to knowledge. Topics will include the history of quantification, statistics, rules, algorithms, data, calculation, and the long history of claims to non-human forms of knowing.

Thursdays at 3:00-5:45 PM with Professor Alex Csiszar

Alex Csiszar

acsiszar@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of the History of Science

Director of Graduate Studies

Areas of Research: Book History, Media Studies, Philosophy of Science, Science & Technology Studies Alex Csiszar studies the history of science in modern Europe. He publishes primarily on the history of communications media and information technology in...