TY  - EDBOOK
AB  - 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.
DA  - 2021
DO  - 10.14361/9783839454152
KW  - Comparison
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Explanation
KW  - History of Science
KW  - History of Art
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy of Science
KW  - Sociology of Science
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Bielefeld University Press
LA  - eng
PY  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-8376-5415-8
TI  - Narratives and Comparisons. Adversaries or Allies in Understanding Science?
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29506316
Y2  - 2024-11-23T22:15:47
ER  -