Contains 12 essays originally published in three consecutive issues of Critical inquiry (Summer 1991 to Winter 1992), an essay by Mary Poovey, responses to the essays by various faculty members of the University of Chicago, and replies to the responses by the authors of the essays
Includes bibliographical references and index
Terry Castle: Contagious folly : An adventure and its skeptics
Françoise Meltzer: For your eyes only : ghost citing
Terry Castle: Rejoinder to Françoise Meltzer
Simon Schaffer: Self evidence
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Jane Austen and the masturbating girl
Lauren Berlant: Evidences of masturbation
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Against epistemology
Barbara Herrnstein Smith: Belief and resistance : a symmetrical account
Robert Richards: Resistance to constructed belief
Barbara Herrnstein Smith: Circling around, knocking over, playing out
Mark Kelman: Reasonable evidence of reasonableness
Cass R. Sunstein: On finding facts
Mark Kelman: Rejoinder to Cass R. Sunstein
Donald Preziosi: Question of art history
Joel Snyder: Response to Donald Preziosi
Donald Preziosi: Rejoinder to Joel Snyder
Lorraine Daston: Marvelous facts and miraculous evidence in early modern Europe
James Chandler: Proving a history of evidence
Lorraine Daston: Historical epistemology
Carlo Ginzburg: Checking the evidence
Arnold I. Davidson: Carlo Ginzburg and the renewal of historiography
Carlo Ginzburg: Rejoinder to Arnold I. Davidson
Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Atlantis and the nations
Elizabeth Helsinger: Using and abusing fiction
Pierre Vidal-Naquet: How to get beyond myth?
Joan W. Scott: Evidence of experience
Thomas C. Holt: Experience and the politics of intellectual inquiry
Joan W. Scott: Rejoinder to Thomas C. Holt
Mary Poovey: Figures of arithmetic, figures of speech : the discourse of statistics
Harry Harootunian: Response to Mary Poovey
Mary Poovey: Grand narrative or historical overdetermination?
Ian Hacking: Two souls in one body
Jean Comaroff: Aristotle re-membered
Ian Hacking: Aristotle meets incest and innocence
R.C. Lewontin: facts and the factitious in natural sciences
William Wimsatt: Lewontin's evidence (that there isn't any)
R.C. Lewontin.: Rejoinder to William Wimsatt
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