This volume explores how the scientific method enters and determines the dominant methodologies of various modern academic disciplines. It highlights the ways in which practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds -- the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences -- engage with the scientific method in their own disciplines.
This volume explores how the scientific method enters and determines the dominant methodologies of various modern academic disciplines. It highlights the ways in which practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds -- the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences -- engage with the scientific method in their own disciplines.
Gita Chadha is a faculty member at the Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, India. Her areas of academic interests are sociological theory, feminist epistemologies, feminist science studies and visual cultures. Her publications include Feminists and Science: Critiques and Perspectives in India, Vo 1 & 2 (2015, 2017) and Reimaging Sociology in India: Feminist Perspectives (2018). Renny Thomas is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. He is the author of Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment (2022).
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Introduction: Method-o-logical Diversity: Seeking Disciplinary Narrations Gita Chadha and Renny Thomas Part I: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: HUMANITIES Introduction to Part I 1. Methods in Substantivist Linguistics Probal Dasgupta 2. 'If Not Precisely a Science': The Provocations of Literary Studies Sharmila Sreekumar 3. Philosophy and Method Sundar Sarukkai Part II: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: NATURAL SCIENCES Introduction to Part II 4. The Methods of Mathematics Amber Habib 5. Questions of Method: The Philosophy and Practice of Modern Human Genetics Chitra Kannabiran 6. Chemistry, Method, Science, and Society: A Conversation Gita Chadha, Ram Ramaswamy and Renny Thomas 7. 'Between Clearing and Concealment': Knowledge-making in Physics K. Sridhar Part III: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: SOCIAL SCIENCES Introduction to Part III 8. Decolonising Method: Where Do We Stand in Political Studies? Aditya Nigam 9. Betwixt And Between?: Anthropology's Engagement with the Sciences and Humanities Kamala Ganesh 10. Economics, Feminist Economics, and Women's Studies: Methodological Orientations and Disciplinary Boundaries Neetha N. 11. Method, Object, and Praxis: Marx and the Historians of Science Rahul Govind 12. Psychology in India: Knowledge, Method, Nation Sabah Siddiqui 13. Geography in India: Gendered Concerns and Methodological Issues Saraswati Raju 14. Beyond the Postcolonial: Speculations on the Indian Contemporary Yasmeen Arif 15. Towards New Ecologies of Method: A Speculative Afterword Sasheej Hegde
Introduction: Method-o-logical Diversity: Seeking Disciplinary Narrations Gita Chadha and Renny Thomas Part I: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: HUMANITIES Introduction to Part I 1. Methods in Substantivist Linguistics Probal Dasgupta 2. 'If Not Precisely a Science': The Provocations of Literary Studies Sharmila Sreekumar 3. Philosophy and Method Sundar Sarukkai Part II: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: NATURAL SCIENCES Introduction to Part II 4. The Methods of Mathematics Amber Habib 5. Questions of Method: The Philosophy and Practice of Modern Human Genetics Chitra Kannabiran 6. Chemistry, Method, Science, and Society: A Conversation Gita Chadha, Ram Ramaswamy and Renny Thomas 7. 'Between Clearing and Concealment': Knowledge-making in Physics K. Sridhar Part III: SHIFTS WITHIN THE SILO: SOCIAL SCIENCES Introduction to Part III 8. Decolonising Method: Where Do We Stand in Political Studies? Aditya Nigam 9. Betwixt And Between?: Anthropology's Engagement with the Sciences and Humanities Kamala Ganesh 10. Economics, Feminist Economics, and Women's Studies: Methodological Orientations and Disciplinary Boundaries Neetha N. 11. Method, Object, and Praxis: Marx and the Historians of Science Rahul Govind 12. Psychology in India: Knowledge, Method, Nation Sabah Siddiqui 13. Geography in India: Gendered Concerns and Methodological Issues Saraswati Raju 14. Beyond the Postcolonial: Speculations on the Indian Contemporary Yasmeen Arif 15. Towards New Ecologies of Method: A Speculative Afterword Sasheej Hegde
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