{"product_id":"science-without-laws-9780822340683","title":"Science without Laws","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eScience without Laws \u003c\/i\u003einspires with its breathtaking scope. Delving from ethology to economics, molecular biology to microhistory, the authors illuminate crucial congruences in the way experts make their cases. Generations of scholars have taken physics as their model for right thinking, in science and beyond. This volume demonstrates that we are all biologists now.”—David Kaiser, author of \u003ci\u003eDrawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eScience without Laws\u003c\/i\u003e is a superb book. It is a very strong collection, sharply defined yet impressive in scope and reach, rich in substance and deep in analysis.”—Arkady Plotnitsky, author of \u003ci\u003eComplementarity: Anti-Epistemology after Bohr and Derrida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eScience without Laws\u003c\/i\u003e] offers an interesting and eclectic set of essays. . . . Consciously self-reflexive, these essays are model studies of model studies and exemplary narratives of exemplary narratives. The book itself is an exemplary collection of model essays for historians and philosophers interested in model systems, and will be an engaging read for anyone interested in the vicissitudes of practices and reasoning strategies in science without laws.” -- Jacob Stegenga * British Journal for the History of Science *\u003cbr\u003e“The range of scholarship represented here is vast, providing a valuable overview of models and cases (or what functions similarly, like exemplary narratives in history and psychoanalysis or ritual systems in anthropology) in a broad range of disciplines. . . . Sociology is not explicitly represented in this essays, but the implications for sociological knowledge are clear and significant, if also controversial. They merit serious consideration by all sociologists.” -- Kathleen M. Blee * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \/ Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise 1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1: Biology \u003cbr\u003e Redesigning the Fruit Fly: The Molecularization of Drosophila \/ Marcel Weber 23\u003cbr\u003e Wormy Logic: Model Organisms as Case-Based Reasoning \/ Rachel A. Ankeny 46\u003cbr\u003e Model Organisms as Powerful Tools for Biomedical Research \/ E. Jane Albert Hubbard 59\u003cbr\u003e The Troop Trope: Baboon Behavior as a Model System in the Postwar Period \/ Susan Sperling 73\u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Simulations \u003cbr\u003e From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology \/ Naomi Oreskes 93\u003cbr\u003e Models and Simulations in Climate Change: Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological, and Political Aspects \/ Amy Dahan Dalmedico 125\u003cbr\u003e The Curios Case of the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Model Situation? Exemplary Narrative? \/ Mary S. Morgan \u003cbr\u003e Part 3: Human Sciences \u003cbr\u003e The Psychoanalytic Case: Voyeurism, Ethics, and Epistemology in Robert Stoller’s \u003ci\u003eSexual Excitement\u003c\/i\u003e \/ John Forrester 189\u003cbr\u003e “To Exist Is to Have Confidence in One’s Way of Being”: Rituals as Model Systems \/ Clifford Geertz 212\u003cbr\u003e Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory \/ Josiah Ober 225\u003cbr\u003e Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory \/ Carlo Ginzburg 243\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Reflections on Exemplary Narratives, Cases, and Model Organisms \/ Mary S. Morgan 264\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 275\u003cbr\u003e Index 279","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406047551831,"sku":"9780822340683","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-without-laws-9780822340683","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}