Narratives and Comparisons
Adversaries or Allies in Understanding Science?
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 2021
206 pages
978-3-8394-5415-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Publishing group
transcript
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
32
6 farbige Abbildungen, 26 s/w Abbildungen
6 Illustrations, color; 26 Illustrations, black and white
File size
5,12 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-5415-2 (9783839454152)
DOI
10.14361/9783839454152
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Martin Carrier | Rebecca Mertens | Carsten Reinhardt
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Adversaries or Allies in Understanding Science?
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Editor
Martin Carrier, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland
Martin Carrier (Prof. Dr. phil.) lehrt Wissenschaftsphilosophie an der Universität Bielefeld. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Theorienwandel und Methodenlehre der Naturwissenschaften, insbesondere Methodologie der angewandten Forschung.
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Carsten Reinhardt, Universität Bielefeld, Deutschland
Carsten Reinhardt (Prof. Dr.) ist seit 2007 Professor für Historische Wissenschaftsforschung an der Universität Bielefeld. Seine Forschungsgebiete sind Geschichte der Chemie, Industrieforschung, wissenschaftlicher Instrumente und des Expertenwissens.
