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Narratives and Comparisons: Adversaries or Allies in Understanding Science?
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Abstract 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 ta... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Wissensproduktion; Vergleich; Erzählung; Erklärung; Wissenschaftsgeschichte; Kunstgeschichte; Wissenschaftstheorie; Wissenschaftssoziologie; Literaturwissenschaft
Klassifikation
Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Wissenschaftslogik, Ethik der Sozialwissenschaften
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Verlag
Bielefeld University Press
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
203 S.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839454152
ISBN
978-3-8394-5415-2
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0