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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bielefeld : Bielefeld University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (206 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839454152
  • 3839454158
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Narratives and comparisons.DDC classification:
  • 501 23
LOC classification:
  • Q175 .N37 2021eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Does Narrative Matter? -- Historical Narrative versus Comparative Description? -- On the Narrative Order of Experimentation -- The 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Does Narrative Matter? -- Historical Narrative versus Comparative Description? -- On the Narrative Order of Experimentation -- The Flower People of Shanidar -- Narrating and Comparing in the Organization of Research Projects -- Seeing, Comparing, Narrating -- Narrating Art History -- Authors

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.

In English.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references.

Open Access EbpS

OCLC control number change - WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050, 072, 082, 650

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