Metaphors Moving Targets in the (Social) Sciences. Why Metaphor? Toward a Metaphorics of Scientific Practice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Introduction. Science Studies. Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge 9
4. Eugenics Looking at the Role of Science Anew. A Statistical Viewpoint on the Testing of Historical Hypotheses: The Case of Eugenics 55
5. Humanities Inquiry Into the Growing Demand for Histories. Making Sense 71
6. Bibliometrics Monitoring Emerging Fields. A Bibliometric Methodology for Exploring Interdisciplinary, ‘Unorthodox’ Fields of Science. A Case Study of Environmental Medicine 85
7. Science Policy Making Universities Cope with Science Today. German Universities on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century 123
8. Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences Increasingly a Mutual Exchange. Culture is Part of Human Biology. Why the Superorganic Concept Serves the Human Sciences Badly 145
9. Climatology Innovative Research Strategies in a Dynamic Field. Making Ice Talk: Notes from a Participant Observer on Climate Research in Antarctica 179
10. Metaphors Moving Targets in the (Social) Sciences. Why Metaphor? Toward a Metaphorics of Scientific Practice 213
11. Science and the Public Pushing PUS with Science Studies. What Kind of ‘Public Understanding of Science’ Programs Best Serve a Democracy? 235
12. Knowledge Politics The Paradox of Regulating Knowledge Dynamics. Policing Knowledge 257
13. Indices 291