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Title Narratives and Comparisons : Adversaries or Allies in Understanding Science? / Martin Carrier, Rebecca Mertens, Carsten Reinhardt.

Publication Info. Bielefeld : Bielefeld University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (206 pages)
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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Does Narrative Matter? -- Historical Narrative versus Comparative Description? -- On the Narrative Order of Experimentation -- Flower People of Shanidar -- Narrating and Comparing in the Organization of Research Projects -- Seeing, Comparing, Narrating -- Narrating Art History -- Authors
Summary As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narratives enable or impede practices of comparing. It takes into account related activities, such as measuring and classifying, modeling, establishing norms and categories, as well as organizing and popularizing knowledge, to analyze the ambivalent relationship between narratives, scientific explanation, and understanding. The contributions bring out the epistemic role of narratives, and elucidate how narratives are connected to comparisons and scientific explanations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Access Open Access EbpS
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language In English.
Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
epistemology.
Discourse analysis, Narrative.
HISTORY -- Social History.
HISTORY / Social History.
Indexed Term Bielefeld University Press.
Explanation.
History of Art.
History of Science.
Literary Studies.
Narrative.
Philosophy of Science.
Science.
Sociology of Science.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Added Author Britta, Hochkirchen, contributor, contributor. https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
Carrier, Martin, editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
Carsten, Reinhardt, contributor, contributor. https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
Christine, Peters, contributor, contributor. https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
Hans-Jörg, Rheinberger, contributor, contributor. https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
Joris Corin, Heyder, contributor, contributor. https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
M., Norton Wise, contributor, contributor. https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
Martin, Carrier, contributor, contributor. https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
Mertens, Rebecca, editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
Oliver, Hochadel, contributor, contributor. https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
Rebecca, Mertens, contributor, contributor. https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
Reinhardt, Carsten, editor. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
Other Form: Print version: Narratives and comparisons. [Bielefeld] : Bielefeld University Press, an imprint of Transcript Verlag, [2021] 9783837654158 (OCoLC)1237549225
ISBN 9783839454152
3839454158
9783837654158
383765415X
Standard No. 10.14361/9783839454152