Narrative Science

Herausgeber: Berry, Dominic J.; Morgan, Mary S.; Hajek, Kim M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and coordinated by the Narrative Science Project, funded by the European Research Council, this volume offers integrated and insightful essays examining cases that run the gamut from geology to psychology, chemistry, physics, botany, mathematics, epidemiology and biological engineering. Taking in shipwrecks, human evolution, military intelligence and mass extinctions, this landmark study revises our understanding of what science is, and the roles of narrative in scientists' work. This title is also available as Open Access. Mary S. Morgan is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics at the London School of Economics. Kim M. Hajek is a postdoctoral researcher associated with the Narrative Science Project, who currently works on the 'Scholarly Vices Project' at the University of Leiden. Dominic J. Berry is Research Fellow on the Narrative Science Project, and the 'Everyday Cyborgs 2.0' project at the University of Birmingam"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 870g
• ISBN-13: 9781316519004
• ISBN-10: 1316519007
• Artikelnr.: 63508933

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; Authors and affiliations; Foreword Mary S. Morgan, Kim M.
Hajek and Dominic J. Berry; Prologues; 1. Narrative: A general purpose
technology for science Mary S. Morgan; 2. What is narrative in narrative
science? The narrative science approach Kim M. Hajek; Part I. Matters of
Time: When time matters in the sciences, it matters in their narratives,
but those narratives rarely use a simple account of time; 3. Mass
extinctions and narratives of recurrence John E. Huss; 4. The narrative
nature of geology and the rewriting of the stac fada story Andrew Hopkins;
5. Reasoning from narratives and models: reconstructing the tohoku
earthquake Teru Miyake; 6. Stored and storied time in archaeology Anne
Teather; Part II. Accessing Nature's Narratives: When nature is seen as
narrating itself, narrative becomes a constituent feature of scientific
accounts; 7. Great exaptations: On reading Darwin's plant narratives Devin
Griffiths; 8. From memories to forecasting: Narrating imperial storm
science Debjani Bhattacharyya; 9. Visual evidence and narrative in botany
and war: Two domains, one practice Elizabeth Haines; 10. The trees' tale:
Filigreed phylogenetic trees and integrated narratives Nina Kranke; 11.
Process tracing and narrative science Sharon Crasnow; Part III. Research
Narratives: When scientists write about their research, their narratives
centre on their practices but reveal their beliefs about phenomena; 12.
Research articles as narratives: Familiarizing communities with an approach
Robert Meunier; 13. Thick and thin chemical narratives Mat Paskins; 14.
Reporting on plagues: Epidemiological reasoning in the early twentieth
century Lukas Engelmann; 15. The politics of representation: Narratives of
automation in twentieth century American mathematics Stephanie Dick; 16.
Chronicle, genealogy, and narrative: Understanding synthetic biology in the
image of historiography Berry; Part IV. Narrative Sensibility and Argument:
When narrative acts as a site for reasoning; 17. Anecdotes: epistemic
switching in medical narratives Brian Hurwitz; 18. Narrative performance
and the 'taboo on causal inference': A case study of conceptual remodelling
and implicit causation Elspeth Jajdelska; 19. Reading mathematical proofs
as narratives Line Edlsev Andersen; 20. Narrative solutions to a common
evolutionary problem John Beatty; 21. Just-so what? Paula Olmos; 22.
Narrative and natural language M. Norton Wise; Index.