This collection on case-based reasoning in the natural- and human sciences showcases some ways that scholars think with small instances while en route, or not, to more general laws.
This collection on case-based reasoning in the natural- and human sciences showcases some ways that scholars think with small instances while en route, or not, to more general laws.
Angela N. H. Creager is Professor of History at Princeton University. She is the author of The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930–1965. Elizabeth Lunbeck is the Nelson Tyrone Jr. Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University. Her books include The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America. M. Norton Wise is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the editor of Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science, also published by Duke University Press.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction / Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise 1 Part 1: Biology Redesigning the Fruit Fly: The Molecularization of Drosophila / Marcel Weber 23 Wormy Logic: Model Organisms as Case-Based Reasoning / Rachel A. Ankeny 46 Model Organisms as Powerful Tools for Biomedical Research / E. Jane Albert Hubbard 59 The Troop Trope: Baboon Behavior as a Model System in the Postwar Period / Susan Sperling 73 Part 2: Simulations From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology / Naomi Oreskes 93 Models and Simulations in Climate Change: Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological, and Political Aspects / Amy Dahan Dalmedico 125 The Curios Case of the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Model Situation? Exemplary Narrative? / Mary S. Morgan Part 3: Human Sciences The Psychoanalytic Case: Voyeurism, Ethics, and Epistemology in Robert Stoller’s Sexual Excitement / John Forrester 189 “To Exist Is to Have Confidence in One’s Way of Being”: Rituals as Model Systems / Clifford Geertz 212 Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory / Josiah Ober 225 Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory / Carlo Ginzburg 243 Afterword: Reflections on Exemplary Narratives, Cases, and Model Organisms / Mary S. Morgan 264 Contributors 275 Index 279
Introduction / Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise 1 Part 1: Biology Redesigning the Fruit Fly: The Molecularization of Drosophila / Marcel Weber 23 Wormy Logic: Model Organisms as Case-Based Reasoning / Rachel A. Ankeny 46 Model Organisms as Powerful Tools for Biomedical Research / E. Jane Albert Hubbard 59 The Troop Trope: Baboon Behavior as a Model System in the Postwar Period / Susan Sperling 73 Part 2: Simulations From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology / Naomi Oreskes 93 Models and Simulations in Climate Change: Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological, and Political Aspects / Amy Dahan Dalmedico 125 The Curios Case of the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Model Situation? Exemplary Narrative? / Mary S. Morgan Part 3: Human Sciences The Psychoanalytic Case: Voyeurism, Ethics, and Epistemology in Robert Stoller’s Sexual Excitement / John Forrester 189 “To Exist Is to Have Confidence in One’s Way of Being”: Rituals as Model Systems / Clifford Geertz 212 Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory / Josiah Ober 225 Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory / Carlo Ginzburg 243 Afterword: Reflections on Exemplary Narratives, Cases, and Model Organisms / Mary S. Morgan 264 Contributors 275 Index 279
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