Book ID: CBB000774295

Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (2007)

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Creager, Angela N. H. (Editor)
Lunbeck, Elizabeth A. (Editor)
Wise, M. Norton (Editor)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: 287 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Greene, Mott (2008) Review of "Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 199). unapi

Review Steigerwald, Joan (2009) Review of "Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 172). unapi

Review Borrello, Mark E. (2008) Review of "Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 664). unapi

Review Stegenga, Jacob (2009) Review of "Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 626). unapi

Review Winsberg, Eric (2009) Review of "Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 265). unapi

Essay Review Lindee, Susan (2009) Transubstantiation in Science. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 248-257). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Creager, Angela N. H.; Lunbeck, Elizabeth; Wise, M. Norton (2007) Introduction. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Weber, Marcel (2007) Redesigning the Fruit Fly: The Molecularization of Drosophila. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 23). unapi

Chapter Ankeny, Rachel A. (2007) Wormy Logic: Model Organisms as Case-Based Reasoning. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 46). unapi

Chapter Hubbard, E. Jane Albert (2007) Model Organisms as Powerful Tools for Biomedical Research. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 59). unapi

Chapter Sperling, Susan (2007) The Troop Trope: Baboon Behavior as a Model System in the Postwar Period. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 73). unapi

Chapter Oreskes, Naomi (2007) From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 93). unapi

Chapter Dalmedico, Amy Dahan (2007) Models and Simulations in Climate Change: Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological, and Political Aspects. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 125). unapi

Chapter Morgan, Mary S. (2007) The Curious Case of the Prisoner's Dilemma: Model Situation? Exemplary Narrative?. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 157). unapi

Chapter Forrester, John (2007) The Psychoanalytic Case: Voyeurism, Ethics, and Epistemology in Robert Stoller's Sexual Excitement. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 189). unapi

Chapter Geertz, Clifford (2007) “To Exist Is to Have Confidence in One's Way of Being”: Rituals as Model Systems. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 212). unapi

Chapter Ober, Josiah (2007) Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 225). unapi

Chapter Ginzburg, Carlo (2007) Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 243). unapi

Chapter Morgan, Mary S. (2007) Afterword: Reflections on Exemplary Narratives, Cases, and Model Organisms. In: Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (p. 264). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Tugby, Matthew
Forey, Oswaldo
Patton, Lydia
McNulty, Michael Bennett
Brading, Katherine
Weingartner, Paul
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Synthese
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Philosophy of Science
Journal of the History of Ideas
Publishers
Oxford University Press
University of Wisconsin at Madison
University of Pittsburgh Press
Springer-Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Johns Hopkins University
Concepts
Natural laws
Philosophy of science
Philosophy
Motion (physical)
Natural philosophy
Models and modeling in science
People
Kant, Immanuel
Newton, Isaac
Descartes, René
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Time Periods
17th century
21st century
18th century
20th century
16th century
20th century, late
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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