Starring the text : the place of rhetoric in science studies / Alan G. Gross.
Pubblicazione:
Carbondale : Southern Illinois university press, c2006.
Descrizione fisica:
X, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Pt. 1. The case for the rhetorical analysis of science: 1. The achievements of rhetoric of science 2. The justification of rhetoric of science 3. The kind of rhetoric science is. Pt. 2. The limits of the rhetorical analysis of science: 4. The possibility of a complete rhetorical description of science: taxonomy as example 5. The possibility of a complete rhetorical description of scientific change: Newton's Opticks as example. Pt. 3. The range of the rhetorical analysis of science: 6. The generation of scientific knowledge: the evolution of evolution in Darwin's Notebooks 7. The initial certification of scientific knowledge: peer review as the institutionalization of consensus 8. The spread of scientific knowledge: the initial acceptance of heliocentricity 9. The incorporation of claims into practice: closure in science and its philosophy 10. Science and society: curing occupational medicine. Pt. 4. Science studies: where rhetoric fits in: 11. Compatible insights between sociology and rhetoric: priority as a social norm 12. Complementary insights among the disciplines: the example of incommensurability. Bibliography. Index
