Description: A comparison of the use of model systems and exemplary cases across fields in the natural and social sciences.
Review Quotes: "Science without Laws inspires with its breathtaking scope. Delving from ethology to economics, molecular biology to microhistory, the authors illuminate crucial congruences in the way experts make their cases. Generations of scholars have taken physics as their model for right thinking, in science and beyond. This volume demonstrates that we are all biologists now."--David Kaiser, author of Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics