edited by Henry Krips, J.E. McGuire, and Trevor Melia
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Germany :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Universitätsverlag Konstanz,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c1995
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xix, 322 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references
CONTENTS NOTE
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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