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Edited by Herbert W. Simons

The Rhetorical Turn

Invention and Persuasion in the Conduct of Inquiry

395 pages, 1 line drawing  6 x 9  © 1990

Cloth $75.00

ISBN: 9780226759012   Published May 1990

Paper $34.00

ISBN: 9780226759029   Published April 1990

Introduction: The Rhetoric of Inquiry as an Intellectual Movement, Herbert W. Simons
Part One: Rhetorics of Science
1 Bio-Rhetorics: Moralizing the Life Sciences, John Lyne
2 Scientific Discovery and Rhetorical Invention: The Path to Darwin's, Origin, John Angus Campbell
3 The Origin of Species: Evolutionary Taxonomy as an Example of the Rhetoric of Science, Alan G. Gross
4 Psychoanalysis: Science or Rhetoric?, Tullio Maranhao
5 Discursive Constraints on the Acceptance and Rejection of Knowledge Claims: The Conversation about Conversion, Robert E. Sanders
6 The Rhetoric of Decision Science, or Herbert A. Simon Says, Carolyn R. Miller
Part Two: The Politics of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Politics
7 Arguing over Incommensurable Values: The Case of Machiavelli, Eugene Garver
8 Narrative Figures and Subtle Persuasions: The Rhetoric of the MOVE Report, Susan Wells
9 The Rhetoric of the Commons: Forum Discourse in Politics and Society, Manfred Stanley
10 Political Foundations for the Rhetoric of Inquiry, John S. Nelson
Part Three: Philosophical Probes and Reflections
11 The Checkmate of Rhetoric (But Can Our Reasons Become Causes?), Kenneth J. Gergen
12 Reconciling Realism and Relativism, Joseph Margolis
13 Symbolic Realism and the Dualism of the Human Sciences: A Rhetorical Reformulation of the Debate between Positivism and Romanticism, Richard Harvey Brown
14 Rhetoric and Its Double: Reflections on the Rhetorical Turn in the Human Sciences, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Awards
  • Joel Gregory Prize
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