The Atlas of Quantification
Mapping the historical, social, and cognitive expansion of quantification across various domains of modern life (early-stage project)
Portfolio
Cold Calculation: The Promises of Computational Rationality (In Polish)
This book explores the historical and cognitive shift that led modern society to instinctively trust numbers, metrics, and statistics as the ultimate standard of objectivity. By tracing the evolution of quantification from Leibniz to the era of Big Data, it demonstrates how our growing reliance on ‘computational rationality’ fundamentally transformed how we produce knowledge, establish facts, and persuade others.
The Numerical Advantage: How We Learned to Love Counting (In Polish)
A comprehensive historical and philosophical investigation into the emergence of numerical thinking as the dominant mode of rationality. A biography of the computational mind in a popular science form
A Proof Above All. The Emergence of Modern Statistics as a Cognitive Shift in 1878-1931 Poland
This project examines how the rapid introduction of modern statistics in Poland (1878–1931) served not merely as a tool for social modernization, but triggered a profound ‘cognitive shift’ in public and scientific discourse. By analyzing key historical debates on the outskirts of mainstream European science. it demonstrates how an escalating ‘trust in numbers’ (of Ted Porter) fundamentally redefined the standards of rationality and fact-production, effectively becoming ‘reasoning by numbers’.
To Foresee and Forestall: The Quantitative Lens of Sustainability Sciences
This project investigates the overlooked role of computational techniques and quantitative methods in shaping knowledge production within sustainability sciences. By combining Integrated History and Philosophy of Science with digital humanities tools, it scrutinizes how statistical modeling and data circulation drive the field’s core ambition to ‘foresee and forestall.’