Science, Reason, and Rhetoric

by Krips, Henry; McGuire, J. E.; Melia, Trevor

• ISBN13: 9780822939122
• ISBN10: 0822939126
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-14
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Science and the Many Faces of Rhetoric	p. 3
Rhetoric and Rationality in William Harvey's De Motu Cordis	p. 13
The Cognitive Functions of Scientific Rhetoric	p. 47
Comment	p. 67
How to Tell the Dancer from the Dance: Limits and Proportions in Argument About the Nature of Science	p. 73
The Strong Program in the Rhetoric of Science	p. 95
Producing Sunspots on an Iron Pan: Galileo's Scientific Discourse	p. 119
Comment: A New Way of Seeing Galileo's Sunspots (and New Ways to Talk Too)	p. 145
Rhetoric and the Cold Fusion Controversy: From the Chemists' Woodstock to the Physicists' Altamont	p. 153
Comment	p. 177
American Intransigence: The Rejection of Continental Drift in the Great Debates of the 1920s	p. 181
Topics, Tropes, and Tradition: Darwin's Reinvention and Subversion of the Argument to Design	p. 211
Comment: Darwin's Recapitulation	p. 237
Rhetoric in the Context of Scientific Rationality	p. 245
Comment: Metaphors, Rhetoric, and Science	p. 269
Rhetoric, Ideology, and Desire in von Neumann's Grundlagen	p. 279
Eddington and the Idiom of Modernism	p. 295
Comment: Standing on the Threshold	p. 317
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