| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science |
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Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- Methodology.
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Rhetoric -- Philosophy.
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Rationalism.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Krips, Henry.
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McGuire, J. E.
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Melia, Trevor.
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| ISBN |
0822970414 electronic bk |
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9780822970415 electronic bk |
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