Introduction / Angela N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise 1

Part 1: Biology

Redesigning the Fruit Fly: The Molecularization of Drosophila / Marcel Weber 23

Wormy Logic: Model Organisms as Case-Based Reasoning / Rachel A. Ankeny 46

Model Organisms as Powerful Tools for Biomedical Research / E. Jane Albert Hubbard 59

The Troop Trope: Baboon Behavior as a Model System in the Postwar Period / Susan Sperling 73

Part 2: Simulations

From Scaling to Simulation: Changing Meanings and Ambitions of Models in Geology / Naomi Oreskes 93

Models and Simulations in Climate Change: Historical, Epistemological, Anthropological, and Political Aspects / Amy Dahan Dalmedico 125

The Curios Case of the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Model Situation? Exemplary Narrative? / Mary S. Morgan

Part 3: Human Sciences

The Psychoanalytic Case: Voyeurism, Ethics, and Epistemology in Robert Stoller’s Sexual Excitement / John Forrester 189

“To Exist Is to Have Confidence in One’s Way of Being”: Rituals as Model Systems / Clifford Geertz 212

Democratic Athens as an Experimental System: History and the Project of Political Theory / Josiah Ober 225

Latitude, Slaves, and the Bible: An Experiment in Microhistory / Carlo Ginzburg 243

Afterword: Reflections on Exemplary Narratives, Cases, and Model Organisms / Mary S. Morgan 264

Contributors 275

Index 279

Angela N. H. Creager

Marcel Weber

Rachel A. Ankeny

E. Jane Albert Hubbard

Susan Sperling

Naomi Oreskes

Amy Dahan Dalmedico

Mary S. Morgan

John Forrester

Clifford Geertz

Josiah Ober

Carlo Ginzburg

Elizabeth Lunbeck

M. Norton Wise

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“[Science without Laws] 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

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“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

“This book offers relatively new ‘model systems’ paradigms to offset earlier 19th- and 20th-century approaches to research about human traits and diseases, and other disciplinary areas. Each essay has a detailed supportive set of notes. . . . Recommended.” — J. N. Muzio, Choice

“To a degree rare in edited volumes, this collection works as a whole, despite its pleasingly varied subject matter. Readers may pick and choose according to specialist interests, but those who read cover-to-cover are rewarded with a novel and fascinating perspective on how science is done now.” — Lorraine Daston, Common Knowledge

“Science without Laws is a very interesting collection. Its focus on model systems and cases not only suggests a new perspective on what constitutes scientific knowledge; it also points to how such exemplars produce knowledge within scientific disciplines.” —Joan Steigerwald, Centaurus

“Science without Laws is one of the most stimulating books I have read in recent years; anyone interested in contemporary science should study it.” —Silvan S. Schweber, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

“[Science without Laws] 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

“[A] collective volume of exceptionally beautiful composition, moving through a series of illuminating case studies.” —Staffan Muller-Wille, History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences

“[A] novel and fascinating perspective on how science is done now.” —Lorraine Daston, Symbolic Interaction

“Concise but wide-ranging. . . . [A] valuable resource for the field.” —Mark E. Borrello, ISIS

“Drawing on the expertise of philosophers, historians, anthropologists, and biologists, this collection is an important contribution. . . . [A] wonderful collection of interesting and informative essays.” —Eric Winsberg, Metascience

“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

“This book offers relatively new ‘model systems’ paradigms to offset earlier 19th- and 20th-century approaches to research about human traits and diseases, and other disciplinary areas. Each essay has a detailed supportive set of notes. . . . Recommended.” —J. N. Muzio, Choice

“To a degree rare in edited volumes, this collection works as a whole, despite its pleasingly varied subject matter. Readers may pick and choose according to specialist interests, but those who read cover-to-cover are rewarded with a novel and fascinating perspective on how science is done now.” —Lorraine Daston, Common Knowledge

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