| Description |
1 online resource (206 pages) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Does Narrative Matter? -- Historical Narrative versus Comparative Description? -- On the Narrative Order of Experimentation -- The Flower People of Shanidar -- Narrating and Comparing in the Organization of Research Projects -- Seeing, Comparing, Narrating -- Narrating Art History -- Authors |
| Summary |
As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narratives enable or impede practices of comparing. It takes into account related activities, such as measuring and classifying, modeling, establishing norms and categories, as well as organizing and popularizing knowledge, to analyze the ambivalent relationship between narratives, scientific explanation, and understanding. The contributions bring out the epistemic role of narratives, and elucidate how narratives are connected to comparisons and scientific explanations |
| Analysis |
Bielefeld University Press |
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Explanation |
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History of Art |
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History of Science |
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Literary Studies |
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Narrative |
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Philosophy of Science |
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Science |
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Sociology of Science |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jan 2021) |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Discourse analysis, Narrative.
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epistemology.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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HISTORY / Social History
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Discourse analysis, Narrative
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Science -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Britta, Hochkirchen, contributor.
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Carrier, Martin, editor
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Carsten, Reinhardt, contributor.
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Christine, Peters, contributor.
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Hans-Jörg, Rheinberger, contributor.
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Joris Corin, Heyder, contributor.
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M., Norton Wise, contributor.
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Martin, Carrier, contributor.
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Mertens, Rebecca, editor
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Oliver, Hochadel, contributor.
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Rebecca, Mertens, contributor.
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Reinhardt, Carsten, editor
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| ISBN |
9783839454152 |
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3839454158 |
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