Scaffolding: Selected Contributions of James R. Griesemer to History, Philosophy, and Biology （2025. xvi, 404 S. XVI, 404 p. 35 illus. 235 mm）

Herausgegeben:Ankeny, Rachel A./ Dietrich, Michael R./ Leonelli, Sabina

SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND; SPRING（2025発売）

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Full Description

This book brings together some of Griesemer's most significant contributions for the first time, making it widely accessible in a single collection. Throughout his career James Griesemer has created an intellectual scaffold for major advances in the history and philosophy of biology. His analyses of boundary objects, units of selection, reproducers, models, and scaffolds have served and continue to serve as sites of innovation for philosophers, historians, and biologists. Griesemer's oeuvre does not form a mere collection of important essays on disparate and disconnected topics. His works are best understood as units in a large philosophical puzzle, amounting to an overarching vision of how humans understand life and use that understanding for intervention, which in turn is grounded in a highly sophisticated historical and scientific understanding of the research practices in question. With edits, comments, and an in-depth introduction, this book is of great interest to historians and philosophers of biology as well as science in general.

Contents

1: Introduction: Scaffolds for the Study of Science (Rachel A. Ankeny, Michael R. Dietrich, and Sabina Leonelli).- 2: Reflection on Taking a Class with Feyerabend (James R. Griesemer).- 3: Introduction to "Laboratory Models, Causal Explanation and Group Selection" (Michael J. Wade).- 4: Laboratory Models, Causal Explanation and Group Selection (James R. Griesemer and Michael J. Wade).- 5: Introduction to "Picturing Weismannism: A Case Study of Conceptual Evolution" (Rachel A. Ankeny, James R. Griesemer, and William C. Wimsatt).- 6: Picturing Weismannism: A Case Study of Conceptual Evolution (James R. Griesemer and William C. Wimsatt).- 7: Introduction to "Institutional Ecology, 'Translations,' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939" (Geoffrey C. Bowker).- 8: Institutional Ecology, 'Translations,' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939 (Susan Leigh Star and James R. Griesemer).- 9: Introduction to "Modelling in the Museum: On the Role of Remnant Models in the Work of Joseph Grinnell" (Lynn Nyhart).- 10: Modelling in the Museum: On the Role of Remnant Models in the Work of Joseph Grinnell (James R. Griesemer).- 11: Introduction to "Material Models in Biology" (Lisa Gannett).- 12: Material Models in Biology (James R. Griesemer).- 13: Introduction to "Collaboration in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology" (Elihu M. Gerson).- 14: Collaboration in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (James R. Griesemer and Elihu M. Gerson).- 15: Introduction to "Space Time: Temporality and Attention in Iconographies of the Living" (Vivette García-Deister).- 16: Space Time: Temporality and Attention in Iconographies of the Living (James R. Griesemer).- 17: Introduction to "Transforming Objects into Data: How Minute Technicalities of Recording 'Species Location' Entrench a Basic Challenge for Biodiversity" (Beckett Sterner).- 18: Transforming Objects into Data: How Minute Technicalities of Recording 'Species Location' Entrench a Basic Challenge for Biodiversity (Ayelet Shavit and James R. Griesemer).- 19: Introduction to "Formalization and the Meaning of 'Theory' in the Inexact Biological Science" (Matt Haber).- 20: Formalization and the Meaning of 'Theory' in the Inexact Biological Science (James R. Griesemer).- 21: Introduction to "What Salamander Biologists Have Taught Us About Evo-Devo" (Alan Love).- 22: What Salamander Biologists Have Taught Us About Evo-Devo (James R. Griesemer ).- 23: Introduction to "Re-situations of Scientific Knowledge: A Case Study of a Skirmish over Clusters vs Clines in Human Population Genomics" (Carlos Andrés Barragan).- 24: Re-situations of Scientific Knowledge: A Case Study of a Skirmish over Clusters vs Clines in Human Population Genomics (James R. Griesemer and Carlos Andrés Barragan).- 25: Bibliography of James R. Griesemer's Publications (James R. Griesemer).