Science Without Laws

""Science without Laws" 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 "Complementarity: Anti-Epistemology after Bohr and Derrida" ""Science without Laws "inspires 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 "Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics"

Introduction
Biology
Redesigning the Fruit Fly: The Molecularization of Drosophila
Wormy Logic: Model Organisms as Case-Based Reasoning
Model Organisms as Powerful Tools for Biomedical Research
The Troop Trope: Baboon Behavior as a Model System in the Postwar Period
Simulations
From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology
Models and Simulations in Climate Change: Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological, and Political Aspects
The Curios Case of the Prisoner's Dilemma: Model Situation? Exemplary Narrative?
Human Sciences
The Psychoanalytic Case: Voyeurism, Ethics, and Epistemology in Robert Stoller's Sexual Excitement
"To Exist Is to Have Confidence in One's Way of Being": Rituals as Model Systems
Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory
Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory
Afterword: Reflections on Exemplary Narratives, Cases, and Model Organisms
Contributors
Index
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