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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781009004329
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009004329
Creative Commons:
Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC Creative Common License - ND
This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses
Subjects:
History of Science and Technology, Philosophy of Science, History, Philosophy
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Book description

Narrative Science examines the use of narrative in scientific research over the last two centuries. It brings together an international group of scholars who have engaged in intense collaboration to find and develop crucial cases of narrative in science. Motivated and coordinated by the Narrative Science project, funded by the European Research Council, this volume offers integrated and insightful essays examining cases that run the gamut from geology to psychology, chemistry, physics, botany, mathematics, epidemiology, and biological engineering. Taking in shipwrecks, human evolution, military intelligence, and mass extinctions, this landmark study revises our understanding of what science is, and the roles of narrative in scientists' work. This title is also available as Open Access.

Reviews

‘Through a mosaic of case studies from the natural and social sciences, this remarkable collection investigates the many ways in which scientists use narratives as modes and sites of sense-making, representation, and reasoning. The Narrative Science approach imaginatively reconfigures the relationship between philosophy, narratology and scientific practice, enriching each of these fields of inquiry as a result.’

Chiara Ambrosio - University College London

‘This rich collection makes a broad-ranging examination of scientific practices, revealing the ubiquitous presence and diverse functions of narratives. An important and illuminating emphasis is on the key role of narrative as a 'technology of sense-making’. This path-breaking volume will have far-reaching implications for science studies, with deep philosophical implications.’

Hasok Chang - University of Cambridge

‘Narrative Science is an important and original collection of essays which together evidence narrative’s crucial epistemic role within science, and demonstrate the many ways in which narrative is involved in, sometimes integral to, the production of scientific knowledge.’

Sarah Dillon - University of Cambridge

‘Was science ever so austere and self-effacing as its defenders imply by praising it as ‘data-driven’? The chapters of this important collection demonstrate the vital role of narrative not just in popular writing on science, but in creative research, pointing the way to a more encompassing historical philosophy of science.’

Theodore M. Porter - UCLA

‘Narrative Science eloquently parries dismissive, ‘just-so’ critiques of story-telling in science by demonstrating that scientists past and present have used narrative as a way of thinking: that is, a tool for making sense of the natural, human, and social worlds they study, and for creating new knowledge.’

Anne Vila - University of Wisconsin-Madison

Highly recommended.'

A. K. Ackerberg-Hastings Source: Choice

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Contents
  • 17 - Anecdotes: Epistemic Switching in Medical Narratives
    pp 351-370
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  • 19 - Reading Mathematical Proofs as Narratives
    pp 391-404
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  • 20 - Narrative Solutions to a Common Evolutionary Problem
    pp 405-423
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  • 21 - Just-so What?
    pp 424-444
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  • VII - Finale
    pp 445-464
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  • 22 - Narrative and Natural Language
    pp 447-464
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  • Index
    pp 465-478
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