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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
