Research Catalog

Title

Science, reason, and rhetoric / edited by Henry Krips, J.E. McGuire, and Trevor Melia.

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press ; Germany : Universitätsverlag Konstanz, ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Krips, Henry.
• McGuire, J. E.
• Melia, Trevor.

Description

xix, 322 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume 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. --Publisher description.

Series Statement

Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science

Uniform Title

Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science

Subject

• Science > Methodology
• Science > Philosophy
• Rhetoric > Philosophy
• Rationalism
• Science > methods
• rationalism (philosophy)
• Rationalism
• Rhetoric > Philosophy
• Science > Methodology
• Science > Philosophy
• Naturwissenschaften
• Rhetorik
• Wissenschaft
• Wetenschapsfilosofie
• Retorica

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Science and the many faces of rhetoric / Stephen Toulmin -- Rhetoric and rationality in William Harvey's De Motu Cordis / Gerald J. Massey -- The cognitive functions of scientific rhetoric / Philip Kitcher -- Comment / Merrilee H. Salmon -- How to tell the dancer from the dance : limits and proportions in argument about the nature of science / J.E. McGuire and Trevor Melia -- The strong program in the rhetoric of science / Steve Fuller -- 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 -- Rhetoric and the cold fusion controversy : from the chemists' Woodstock to the physicists' Altamont / Trevor J. Pinch -- Comment / H. Krips -- American intransigence : the rejection of continental drift in the great debates of the 1920s / Robert P. Newman -- Topics, tropes, and tradition : Darwin's reinvention and subversion of the argument to design / John Angus Campbell -- Comment : Darwin's recapitulation / James G. Lennox -- Rhetoric in the context of scientific rationality / John Lyne -- Comment : Metaphors, rhetoric, and science / Michael Bradie -- Rhetoric, ideology, and desire in von Neumann's Gründlagen / H. Krips -- Eddington and the idiom of modernism / Gillian Beer -- Comment : Standing on the threshold / Trevor Melia.

ISBN

• 0822939126
• 9780822939122
• 3879405336
• 9783879405336

LCCN

95033117

OCLC

• ocm32818927
• 32818927
• SCSB-2081832

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library