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Title Science, reason, and rhetoric / edited by Henry Krips, J.E. McGuire, and Trevor Melia.

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press : Universitätsverlag Konstanz, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 322 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Science and the many faces of rhetoric / Stephen Toulmin -- Rhetoric and rationality in William Harvey's De Motu Cordis / Gerald J. Massey -- The cognitive functions of scientific rhetoric / Philip Kitcher -- Comment / Merrilee H. Salmon -- How to tell the dancer from the dance : limits and proportions in argument about the nature of science / J.E. McGuire and Trevor Melia -- The strong program in the rhetoric of science / Steve Fuller -- Producing sunspots on an iron pan : Galileo's scientific discourse / R. Feldhay -- Comment : A new way of seeing Galileo's sunspots (and new ways to talk too) / Peter Machamer -- Rhetoric and the cold fusion controversy : from the chemists' Woodstock to the physicists' Altamont / Trevor J. Pinch -- Comment / H. Krips -- American intransigence : the rejection of continental drift in the great debates of the 1920s / Robert P. Newman -- Topics, tropes, and tradition : Darwin's reinvention and subversion of the argument to design / John Angus Campbell -- Comment : Darwin's recapitulation / James G. Lennox -- Rhetoric in the context of scientific rationality / John Lyne -- Comment : Metaphors, rhetoric, and science / Michael Bradie -- Rhetoric, ideology, and desire in von Neumann's Gründlagen / H. Krips -- Eddington and the idiom of modernism / Gillian Beer -- Comment : Standing on the threshold / Trevor Melia.
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Subject Science -- Methodology.
Science -- Methodology.
Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy.
Rhetoric -- Philosophy.
Rhetoric -- Philosophy.
Rationalism.
Rationalism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Krips, Henry.
McGuire, J. E.
Melia, Trevor.
Other Form: Print version: Science, reason, and rhetoric 0822939126 (DLC) 95033117 (OCoLC)32818927
ISBN 9780822970415 (electronic book)
0822970414 (electronic book)
0822939126
9780822939122
9780822961963
0822961962