Starring the text : the place of rhetoric in science studies /

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Author / Creator:Gross, Alan G.
Imprint:Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2006.
Description:x, 216 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5928964
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ISBN:9780809326952 (alk. paper)
0809326957 (alk. paper)
9780809326969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0809326965 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-208) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The achievements of rhetoric of science
  • 2. The justification of rhetoric of science
  • 3. The kind of rhetoric science is
  • 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
  • 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
  • 11. Compatible insights between sociology and rhetoric : priority as a social norm
  • 12. Complementary insights among the disciplines : the example of incommensurability.