Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies
Volume 11
Published on 12. February 1997
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-880393-11-6 (ISBN)
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Rhetoric of science is the study of how scientists persuade and dissuade each other and the rest of us about nature -- the study of how scientists argue in the making of knowledge. In fragmented form, it goes back as long as the two fields have existed, and it makes various appearances throughout the history of each.
The studies in this volume are exemplars for rhetoric of science. They chart the field, exhibiting the governing themes of rhetorical criticism when its eye turns to science -- suasive greatness, paradigmatic debates, public policy concerns, and composition issues. Starting at the top, the papers take as their main courses the two disciplines highest in the scientific food chain -- physics and biology -- with side orders of archaeology and experimental psychology. They employ a methodological tool-set largely inherited from Aristotle, but also draw pluralistically on related enterprises, such as pragmatics, ethology, and literary criticism. Engaging the ruling theoretical issues of the field, these studies are landmarks that define the field.
The studies in this volume are exemplars for rhetoric of science. They chart the field, exhibiting the governing themes of rhetorical criticism when its eye turns to science -- suasive greatness, paradigmatic debates, public policy concerns, and composition issues. Starting at the top, the papers take as their main courses the two disciplines highest in the scientific food chain -- physics and biology -- with side orders of archaeology and experimental psychology. They employ a methodological tool-set largely inherited from Aristotle, but also draw pluralistically on related enterprises, such as pragmatics, ethology, and literary criticism. Engaging the ruling theoretical issues of the field, these studies are landmarks that define the field.
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English
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Mahwah
United States
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Taylor & Francis Inc
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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642 gr
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978-1-880393-11-6 (9781880393116)
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Contents: Introduction. Part I: Giants in Science. J.A. Campbell, Charles Darwin: Rhetorician of Science. A.G. Gross, On the Shoulders of Giants: Seventeenth-Century Optics as an Argument Field. S.M. Halloran, The Birth of Molecular Biology: An Essay in the Rhetorical Criticism of Scientific Discourse. Part II: Conflict in Science. J. Fahnestock, Arguing in Different Forums: The Bering Crossover Controversy. J. Lyne, H.F. Howe, "Punctuated Equilibria": Rhetorical Dynamics of a Scientific Controversy. L.J. Prelli, The Rhetorical Construction of Scientific Ethos. Part III: Public Science. R.M. Weaver, Dialectic and Rhetoric at Dayton, Tennessee. C. Waddell, The Role of Pathos in the Decision-Making Process: A Study in the Rhetoric of Science Policy. C. Reeves, Owning a Virus: The Rhetoric of Scientific Discovery Accounts. Part IV: Writing Science. C. Bazerman, Reporting the Experiment: The Changing Account of Scientific Doings in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665-1800. G. Myers, Texts as Knowledge Claims: The Social Construction of Two Biology Articles.