Narratives and comparisons: adversaries or allies in understanding science?

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[Bielefeld]: Bielefeld University Press, an imprint of Transcript Verlag (2020)
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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."--Publisher description.

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Does Narrative Matter?: Engendering belief in electromagnetic theory.M. Norton Wise
Historical Narrative versus Comparative Description?: Genre and knowledge in Alexander von Humbolt's Personal Narrative.Christine Peters
Introduction: Narratives and comparisons: adversaries or allies in understanding science?Martin Carrier, Rebecca Mertens & Carsten Reinhardt
Narrating Art History: Practices of comparing in exhibitions and written surveys with regard to documenta I.Britta Hochkirchen
Narrating and Comparing in the Organization of Research Projects.Rebecca Mertens
On the Narrative Order of Experimentation.Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Seeing, Comparing, Narrating: Making-of the Middle Ages in the early history of art.Joris Corin Heyder
The Flower People of Shanidar: Telling a new tale about our Neanderthal brothers.Oliver Hochadel

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