Science, Reason, and Rhetoric
Published on 13. March 2017
343 pages
978-0-8229-7041-5 (ISBN)
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This volume from the Pittsburgh-Konstanz series marks a unique collaboration by internationally distinguished scholars in the history, rhetoric, philosophy, and sociology of science. Converging on the central issues of rhetoric of science, the essays focus on figures such as Galileo, Harvey, Darwin, von Neumann; and on issues such as the debate over cold fusion or the continental drift controversy. Their vitality attests to the burgeoning interest in the rhetoric of science.
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Henry Krips | J.E. McGuire | Trevor Melia
Science, Reason, and Rhetoric
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12/1995
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Persons
Henry Krips is professor of communication and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh.
J. E. McGuire is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Trevor Melia is associate professor of communication at the University of Pittsburgh.
J. E. McGuire is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh.
Trevor Melia is associate professor of communication at the University of Pittsburgh.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Science and the Many Faces of Rhetoric - Stephen Toulmin
- 2. Rhetoric and Rationality in Williams Harvey's De Motu Cordis - Gerald J. Massey
- 3. The Cognitive Functions of Scientific Rhetoric - Philip Kitcher
- Comment - Merrilee H. Salmon
- 4. How to Tell the Dancer from the Dance: Limits and Proportions in Argument About the Nature of Science - J.E. McGuire and Trevor Meliz
- 5. The Strong Program in the Rhetoric of Science - Steve Fuller
- 6. Producing Sunspots on an Iron Pan: Galileo's Scientific Discourse - R. Feldhay
- Comment: A New Way of Seeing Galileo's Sunspots (and New Ways to Talk Too) - Peter Machamer
- 7. Rhetoric and the Cold Fusion Controversy: From the Chemists' Woodstock on the Physicists' Altamont - Trevor J. Pinch
- Comment - H. Krips
- 8. American Intransigence: The Rejection of Continental Drift in the Great Debates of the 1920s - Robert P. Newman
- 9. Topics, Tropes, and Tradition: Darwin's Reinvention and Subversion of the Argument to Design - John Augus Campbell
- Comment: Darwin's Recapitulation - James G. Lennox
- 10. Rhetoric in the Context of Scientific Rationality - John Lyne
- Comments: Metaphors, Rhetoric, and Science - Michael Bradie
- 11. Rhetoric, Ideology, and Desire in von Neumann's Grundlagen - H. Krips
- 12. Eddington and the Idiom of Modernism - Gillian Beer
- Comment: Standing on the Threshold - Trevor Melia
