Questions of Evidence

Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines

By: James Chandler (Editor), Arnold I. Davidson (Editor), Harry D. Harootunian (Editor)

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Biologists, historians, lawyers, art historians, and literary critics all voice arguments in the critical dialogue about what constitutes evidence in research and scholarship. They examine not only the constitution and "blurring" of disciplinary boundaries, but also the configuration of the fact-evidence distinctions made in different disciplines and historical moments; the relative function of such concepts as "self-evidence," "experience," "test," "testimony," and "textuality" in varied academic discourses; and the way "rules of evidence" are themselves products of historical developments.

The essays and rejoinders are by Terry Castle, Lorraine Daston, Carlo Ginzburg, Ian Hacking, Mark Kelman, R. C. Lewontin, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Mary Poovey, Donald Preziosi, Simon Schaffer, Joan W. Scott, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith.

The critical responses are by Lauren Berlant, James Chandler, Jean Comaroff, Arnold I. Davidson, Harry D. harootunian, Elizabeth Helsinger, Thomas C. Holt, Francoise Meltzer, Robert J. Richards, Lawrence Rothfield, Joel Snyder, Cass R. Sunstein, and William Wimsatt.

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge Society & Culture Cultural Studies History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Miscellaneous Items

Introduction
The Subject of Evidence Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its Skeptics
For Your Eyes Only: Ghost Citing
A Rejoinder to Françoise Meltzer
Self Evidence
Massaging the Evidence
Gestures in Question
Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl
Evidences of Masturbation
Against Epistemology
Sedgwick Objects and Objectivities Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account
Resistance to Constructed Belief
Circling Around, Knocking Over, Playing Out
Reasonable Evidence of Reasonableness
On Finding Facts
A Rejoinder to Cass R. Sunstein
The Question of Art History
A Response to Donald Preziosi
A Rejoinder to Joel Snyder
History and the Uses of Inquiry Marvelous Facts and Miraculous
Evidence in Early Modern Europe
Proving a History of Evidence
Historical Epistemology
Checking the Evidence: The Judge and the Historian
Carlo Ginzburg and the Renewal of Historiography
A Rejoinder to Arnold I. Davidson
Atlantis and the Nations
Using and Abusing Fiction
How to Get beyond Myth?
Experience and the Disciplines of Proof The Evidence of Experience
Experience and the Politics of Intellectual Inquiry
Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Discourse of Statistics
A Response to Mary Poovey
Grand Narrative or Historical Overdetermination?
Two Souls in One Body
Aristotle Re-membered
Facts and the Factitious in Natural Sciences
Evidence (That There Isn't Any)
A Rejoinder to William Wimsatt
Index
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