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This volume explores how the scientific method enters and determines the dominant methodologies of various modern academic disciplines. It highlights the ways in which practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds –– the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences –– engage with the scientific method in their own disciplines.
The book maps the discourse (within each of the disciplines) that critiques the scientific method, from different social locations, in order to argue for more complex and nuanced approaches in methodology. It also investigates the connections between the method and the structures of power and domination which exist within these disciplines. In the process, it offers a new way of thinking about the philosophy of the scientific method.
Part of the Science and Technology Studies series, this volume is the first of its kind in the South Asian context to debate scientific methods and address questions by scholars based in the global south. It will be useful to students and practitioners of science, humanities, social sciences, philosophy of science, and philosophy of social science. Research scholars from these disciplines, especially those engaging in interdisciplinary research, will also benefit from this volume.
Biographical Notes
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Method-o-logical Diversity: Seeking Disciplinary Narrations
Shifts within the Silo: Humanities
Introduction to Part I
Methods in Substantivist Linguistics
‘If Not Precisely a Science’: The Provocations of Literary Studies
Philosophy and Method
Shifts within the Silo: Natural Sciences
Introduction to Part II
The Methods of Mathematics
Questions of Method: The Philosophy and Practice of Modern Human Genetics
Chemistry, Method, Science, and Society: A Conversation
‘Between Clearing and Concealment’: Knowledge-making in Physics
Shifts within the Silo: Social Sciences
Introduction to Part III
Decolonising Method: Where Do We Stand in Political Studies?
Betwixt and Between?: Anthropology’s Engagement with the Sciences and Humanities
Economics, Feminist Economics, and Women’s Studies: Methodological Orientations and Disciplinary Boundaries
Method, Object, and Praxis: Marx and the Historians of Science
Psychology in India: Knowledge, Method, Nation
Geography in India: Gendered Concerns and Methodological Issues
Beyond the Postcolonial: Speculations on the Indian Contemporary
Towards New Ecologies of Method: A Speculative Afterword
Index