Science without Laws : Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives /

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A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wise, M. Norton, Lunbeck, Elizabeth, Creager, Angela N. H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Biologie > Philosophie.
Modeles biologiques.
Models, Biological
Biology > Philosophy.
Biological models.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
NATURE > Reference.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Redesigning the fruit fly : the molecularization of Drosophila / Marcel Weber
  • Wormy logic : model organisms as case-based reasoning / Rachel A. Ankeny
  • Model organisms as powerful tools for biomedical research / E. Jane Albert Hubbard
  • The troop trope : baboon behavior as a model system in the postwar period / Susan Sperling
  • From scaling to simulation : changing meanings and ambitions of models in geology / Naomi Oreskes
  • Models and simulations in climate change : historical, epistemological, anthropological, and political aspects / Amy Dahan Dalmedico
  • The curious case of the prisoner's dilemma : model situation? : exemplary narrative? / Mary S. Morgan
  • The psychoanalytic case : voyeurism, ethics, and epistemology in Robert Stoller's Sexual excitement / John Forrester
  • "To exist is to have confidence in one's way of being" : rituals as model systems / Clifford Geertz
  • Democratic Athens as an experimental system : history and the project of political theory / Josiah Ober
  • Latitude, slaves, and the Bible : an experiment in microhistory / Carlo Ginzburg
  • Afterword : reflections on exemplary narratives, cases, and model organisms / Mary S. Morgan.

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