The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies (Paperback)

Introduction; Tilman Sauer and Raphel Scholl.- Chapter 1: Telling and Evaluating Philosophical Tales about the Scientific Past; Theodore Arabatzis.- Chapter 2: "Baseline" and "Snapshot": Some Philosophical Reflections on an Approach to Historical Case Studies; Giora Hon.- Chapter 3: The Pluralism of Theory-Laden Narratives: Can Case Studies Decide Arguments in the Philosophy of Science? Katherina Kinzel.- Chapter 4: The Lotka-Volterra Model Revisited; Tarja Knuuttila and Andrea Loettgers.- Chapter 5: Underdetermination in 19th Century Electrodynamics: Developing a Philosophical Position Based on a Historical Case Study; Wolfgang Pietsch.- Chapter 6: Case Studies: Why the Philosopher's Dilemma Misses the Point; Karin Nickelsen.- Chapter 7: Multiple Perspectives on the Stern-Gerlach Experiment; Tilman Sauer.- Chapter 8: The Role of Case Studies in the New Experimentalism; Friedrich Steinle.- Chapter 9: Towards a Methodology for Integrated History and Philosophy of Science; Raphael Scholl and Tim Raz.- Chapter 10: The Discovery of Elementary Particles: Why We Should Bother about the Ways of Telling the Story; Adrian Wuthrich.