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Measurement and Understanding in Science and Humanities

Interdisciplinary Approaches

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Editors:
  1. Marcel Schweiker

    1. Healthy Living Spaces lab, Institute for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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  2. Joachim Hass

    1. Faculty of Applied Psychology, SRH University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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  3. Anna Novokhatko

    1. Department of Classical Philology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  4. Roxana Halbleib

    1. Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  • Interdisciplinary compilation on the terms number, measurement, understanding, model, interpretation
  • Discussion of the terms in the context of interdisciplinary research projects
  • Similarities and differences in the communication of number and model

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This anthology is a unique compilation of scientific contributions on the topic of measurement and understanding, showing how terms such as number, measurement, understanding, model, pattern are used in a wide variety of disciplines. Based on the results and experiences from their own projects, 23 researchers comment on the potentials and limitations of individual methodological approaches and success factors of interdisciplinary collaboration. In doing so, they sound out the different significance of quantification and empirical evidence for their own disciplines and examine the influence of methodological approaches on existing models and images. The common goal is to want to understand the world; the methods, however, are highly diverse.

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Joachim Hass, Anna Novokhatko
      Pages 3-9

    3. Brief Presentation of the Contributions

      • Joachim Hass, Roxana Halbleib
      Pages 11-18

  3. Main Part

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Counting and Narrating: A Methodological Dialogue of Medieval Literature and History

      • Claudia Lauer, Jana Pacyna
      Pages 21-37

    3. Does Klio Count, Too? Measurement and Understanding in Historical Science

      • Andreas Büttner, Christoph Mauntel
      Pages 39-49

    4. Quantitative Data and Hermeneutic Methods in the Digital Classics

      • Stylianos Chronopoulos, Felix K. Maier, Anna Novokhatko
      Pages 51-60

    5. Metaphors and Models: On the Translation of Knowledge into Understanding

      • Chris Thomale
      Pages 61-69

    6. Critical Mass: Aspects of a Quantitatively Oriented Hermeneutics Using the Example of Computational Legal Linguistics

      • Hanjo Hamann, Friedemann Vogel
      Pages 71-83

    7. Quantifying and Operationalizing the Commensurability of International Economic Sanctions

      • Matthias Valta
      Pages 85-101

    8. Science, Numbers and Power: Contemporary Politics Between the Imperative of Rationalization and the Dependence on Numbers

      • Markus J. Prutsch
      Pages 103-117

    9. Measuring and Understanding Financial Risks: An Econometric Perspective

      • Roxana Halbleib
      Pages 119-130

    10. Regulating New Challenges in the Natural Sciences: Data Protection and Data Sharing in Translational Genetic Research

      • Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor, Jan O. Korbel
      Pages 131-147

    11. Psychology and Physics: A Non-invasive Approach to the Functioning of the Human Mirror Neuron System

      • Daniela U. Mier, Joachim Hass
      Pages 149-159

    12. Reflections and Perspectives on the Research Fields of Thermal Comfort at Work and Pain

      • Susanne Becker, Marcel Schweiker
      Pages 161-176

    13. Measuring and Understanding the World Through Geoinformatics Using the Example of Natural Hazards

      • Bernhard Höfle
      Pages 177-190

    14. Measuring Art, Counting Pixels? The Collaboration of Art History and Computer Vision Oscillates Between Quantitative and Hermeneutic Methods

      • Peter Bell, Björn Ommer
      Pages 191-200

    15. Through Numerical Simulation to Scientific Knowledge

      • Mathias J. Krause
      Pages 201-215

  4. Final Part

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Healthy Living Spaces lab, Institute for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Marcel Schweiker

  • Faculty of Applied Psychology, SRH University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Joachim Hass

  • Department of Classical Philology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Anna Novokhatko

  • Institute of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Behavioral Sciences, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Roxana Halbleib

About the editors

The editors and authors of the book are fellows in the WIN College of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The scientific focus of the individual authors is broadly diversified across the entire spectrum of the sciences.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Measurement and Understanding in Science and Humanities

  • Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Approaches

  • Editors: Marcel Schweiker, Joachim Hass, Anna Novokhatko, Roxana Halbleib

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36974-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-658-36973-6Published: 13 June 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-36976-7Published: 14 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-36974-3Published: 12 June 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 271

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science

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