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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
We have only recently started to challenge the notion that ""serious"" inquiry can be free of rhetoric, that it can rely exclusively on ""hard"" fact and ""cold"" logic in support of its claims. Increasingly, scholars are shifting their attention...
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We have only recently started to challenge the notion that ""serious"" inquiry can be free of rhetoric, that it can rely exclusively on ""hard"" fact and ""cold"" logic in support of its claims. Increasingly, scholars are shifting their attention from methods of proof to the heuristic methods of debate and discussion-the art of rhetoric-to examine how scholarly discourse is shaped by tropes and figures, by the naming and framing of issues, and by the need to adapt arguments to ends, audiences, and circumstances. Herbert W. Simons and the contributors to this important collection of essays
Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Rhetoric of Inquiry as an Intellecutal Movement; Part One: Rhetorics of Science; 1. Bio-Rhetorics: Moralizing the Life Sciences; 2. Scientific Discovert and Rhetorical Invention: The Path to Darwin's Origin; 3. The Origin of Species: Evolutionary Taxonomy as an Example of Rhetoric of Science; 4. Psychoanalysis: Science or Rhetoric?; 5. Discursive Constrains on the Acceptance and Rejection of Knowledge Claims: The Conversation about Conversation; 6. The Rhetoric of Decision Science, or Herbert A. Simon Says
Part Two: The Politics of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Politics7. Arguing over Incommensurable Values: The Case of Machiavelli; 8. Narrative Figures and SUbtle Persuasions: The Rhetoric of the MOVE Report; 9. The Rhetoric of the Commons: Forum Discourse in Politics and Society; 10. Political Foundations for the Rhetoric of Inquiry; Part Three: Philosophical Probes and Reflections; 11. The Checkmate of Rhetoric (But Can Our Reasons Become Causes?); 12. Reconciling Realism and Relativism
13. Symbolic Realism and the Dualism of the Human Sciences: A Rhetorical Reformulation of the Debate between Posivitism and Romanticism14. Rhetoric and Its Double: Reflections on the Rhetorical Turn in the Human Sciences; Contributions; Index
Preface; Introduction: The Rhetoric of Inquiry as an Intellecutal Movement; Part One: Rhetorics of Science; 1. Bio-Rhetorics: Moralizing the Life Sciences; 2. Scientific Discovert and Rhetorical Invention: The Path to Darwin's Origin; 3. The Origin of Species: Evolutionary Taxonomy as an Example of Rhetoric of Science; 4. Psychoanalysis: Science or Rhetoric?; 5. Discursive Constrains on the Acceptance and Rejection of Knowledge Claims: The Conversation about Conversation; 6. The Rhetoric of Decision Science, or Herbert A. Simon Says.
