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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Yes, you can access Science Reason Rhetoric by Henry Krips, J.E. McGuire, Trevor Melia, Henry Krips,J.E. McGuire,Trevor Melia in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Philosophy History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Press

Year

2017

ISBN

9780822970415

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Philosophy History & Theory

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