now available! table of contents for our book!

With considerable pleasure and excitement, we announce the full table of contents for our forthcoming book Narrative Science: reasoning, representing and knowing since 1800. It will be published by Cambridge University Press both as an open access download and available for purchase in print. We will update you when pre-ordering begins, but the most reliable way to stay informed is to join our mailing list, which you can find on the front page of this website. To celebrate this announcement we have also produced a short video advertisement! 
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Narrative Science: reasoning, representing and knowing since 1800

Prologues

1. Mary S. Morgan – Narrative: A General Purpose Technology for Science
2. Kim M. Hajek – What is Narrative in Narrative Science? The Narrative Science Approach ​
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Matters of Time
When time matters in the sciences, it matters in their narratives, but those narratives rarely use a simple account of time

3. John Huss - Mass Extinctions and Narratives of Recurrence
4. Andrew Hopkins - The Narrative Nature of Geology and the Rewriting of the Stac Fada Story
5. Teru Miyake - Reasoning from Narratives and Models: Reconstructing the Tohoku Earthquake
6. Anne Teather - Stored and Storied Time in Archaeology ​
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Accessing Nature’s Narratives
When nature is seen as narrating itself, narrative becomes a constituent feature of scientific accounts

7. Devin Griffiths - Great Exaptations: On Reading Darwin’s Plant Narratives
8. Debjani Bhattacharyya - From Memories to Forecasting: Narrating Imperial Storm Science
9. Elizabeth Haines - Visual Evidence and Narrative in Botany and War: Two Domains, One Practice
10. Nina Kranke - The Trees’ Tale: Filigreed Phylogenetic Trees and Integrated Narratives 
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Interlude​

11. Sharon Crasnow - Process Tracing and Narrative Science ​

Research Narratives
When scientists write about their research, their narratives centre on their practices but reveal their beliefs about phenomena
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12. Robert Meunier - Research Articles as Narratives: Familiarizing Communities with an Approach
13. Mat Paskins - Thick and Thin Chemical Narratives
14. Lukas Engelmann - Reporting on Plagues: Epidemiological Reasoning in the Early Twentieth Century
15. Stephanie Dick - The Politics of Representation: Narratives of Automation in Twentieth Century American Mathematics
16. Dominic J. Berry - Chronicle, Genealogy, and Narrative: Understanding Synthetic Biology in the Image of Historiography 
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Narrative Sensibility and Argument
When narrative acts as a site for reasoning
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17. Brian Hurwitz - Anecdotes: Epistemic Switching in Medical Narratives
18. Elspeth Jajdelska - Narrative Performance and the ‘Taboo on Causal Inference’:
​A Case Study of Conceptual Remodelling and Implicit Causation
19. Line Andersen - Reading Mathematical Proofs as Narratives
20. John Beatty - Narrative Solutions to a Common Evolutionary Problem
21. Paula Olmos - Just-so What? ​
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Finale

22. Norton Wise - Narrative and Natural Language