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"Starring the Text: The Place of Rhetoric in Science Studies "firmly establishes the rhetorical analysis of science as a respected field of study. Alan G. Gross, one of rhetoric's foremost authorities, summarizes the state of the field and demonstrates the role of rhetorical analysis in the sciences. He documents the limits of such analyses with examples from biology and physics, explores their range of application, and sheds light on the tangled relationships between science and society. In this deep revision of his important "Rhetoric of Science," Gross examines how rhetorical analyses have a wide range of application, effectively exploring the generation, spread, certification, and closure that characterize scientific knowledge. Gross anchors his position in philosophical rather than in rhetorical arguments and maintains there is rhetorical criticism from which the sciences cannot be excluded.
Gross employs a variety of case studies and examples to assess the limits of the rhetorical analysis of science. For example, in examining avian taxonomy, he demonstrates that both taxonomical and evolutionary species are the product of rhetorical interactions. A review of Newton's two formulations of optical research illustrates that their only significant difference is rhetorical, a difference in patterns of style, arrangement, and argument. Gross also explores the range of rhetorical analysis in his consideration of the "evolution of evolution" of Darwin's notebooks. In his analysis of science and society, he explains the limits of citizen action in executive, judicial, and legislative democratic realms in the struggle to prevent, ameliorate, and provide adequate compensation for occupational disease. By using philosophical, historical, and psychological perspectives, Gross concludes, rhetorical analysis can also supplement other viewpoints in resolving intellectual problems.
"Starring the Text," which includes fourteen illustrations," " is an updated, readable study geared to rhetoricians, historians, philosophers, and sociologists interested in science. The volume effectively demonstrates that the rhetoric of science is a natural extension of rhetorical theory and criticism.
"Informative and illuminating, "Starring the Text" adds impressive new research in primary sources. Alan Gross effectively frames challenging points and offers an economical exposition of the background science needed to understand the volume's cases and theories. He demonstrates superior scholarship throughout, exemplified by his deftness at using rhetorical theory from Aristotle in antiquity to Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca in the twentieth century."--Jeanne Fahnestock, author of "Figures of Argument: Studies in the Rhetoric of Science"
| The achievements of rhetoric of science | p. 3 |
| The justification of rhetoric of science | p. 20 |
| The kind of rhetoric science is | p. 32 |
| The possibility of a complete rhetorical description of science : taxonomy as example | p. 49 |
| The possibility of a complete rhetorical description of scientific change : Newton's Opticks as example | p. 63 |
| The generation of scientific knowledge : the evolution of evolution in Darwin's Notebooks | p. 81 |
| The initial certification of scientific knowledge : peer review as the institutionalization of consensus | p. 98 |
| The spread of scientific knowledge : the initial acceptance of heliocentricity | p. 111 |
| The incorporation of claims into practice : closure in science and its philosophy | p. 124 |
| Science and society : curing occupational medicine | p. 142 |
| Compatible insights between sociology and rhetoric : priority as a social norm | p. 165 |
| Complementary insights among the disciplines : the example of incommensurability | p. 180 |
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ISBN: 9780809326952
ISBN-10: 0809326957
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 1st April 2006
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.458
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