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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101316519007

ISBN-139781316519004

eBay Product ID (ePID)5057260658

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Book TitleNarrative Science : Reasoning, Representing and Knowing since 1800

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicGeneral, History

FeaturesNew Edition

IllustratorYes

GenreTechnology & Engineering, Science

AuthorKim M. Hajek

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.2 in

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

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LCCN2022-022798

Reviews'Through a mosaic of case studies from the natural and social sciences, this remarkable collection investigates the many ways in which scientists use narratives as modes and sites of sense-making, representation, and reasoning. The Narrative Science approach imaginatively reconfigures the relationship between philosophy, narratology and scientific practice, enriching each of these fields of inquiry as a result.' Chiara Ambrosio, University College London, 'This rich collection makes a broad-ranging examination of scientific practices, revealing the ubiquitous presence and diverse functions of narratives. An important and illuminating emphasis is on the key role of narrative as a 'technology of sense-making'. This path-breaking volume will have far-reaching implications for science studies, with deep philosophical implications.' Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge, 'Narrative Science is an important and original collection of essays which together evidence narrative's crucial epistemic role within science, and demonstrate the many ways in which narrative is involved in, sometimes integral to, the production of scientific knowledge.' Sarah Dillon, University of Cambridge, 'Narrative Science eloquently parries dismissive, 'just-so' critiques of story-telling in science by demonstrating that scientists past and present have used narrative as a way of thinking: that is, a tool for making sense of the natural, human, and social worlds they study, and for creating new knowledge.' Anne Vila, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 'Was science ever so austere and self-effacing as its defenders imply by praising it as 'data-driven'? The chapters of this important collection demonstrate the vital role of narrative not just in popular writing on science, but in creative research, pointing the way to a more encompassing historical philosophy of science.' Theodore M. Porter, UCLA

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal501.4

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

Table Of ContentList 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.

SynopsisThis collection is the outcome of a major European Research Council funded investigation into the role of narrative in science over the past two centuries. Drawing together a wide range of thought-provoking case studies, this landmark study revises our understanding of what science is and reveals the importance of narrative in how it works., 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.

LC Classification NumberQ225.5