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Title The Rhetorical turn : invention and persuasion in the conduct of inquiry / edited by Herbert W. Simons
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990

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Description xii, 388 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The Rhetorical turn : invention and persuasion in the conduct of inquiry / edited by Herbert W. Simons. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Introduction: The Rhetoric of Inquiry as an Intellectual Movement, Herbert W. Simons -- Part One: Rhetorics of Science -- 1 Bio-Rhetorics: Moralizing the Life Sciences, John Lyne -- 2 Scientific Discovery and Rhetorical Invention: The Path to Darwin's, Origin, John Angus Campbell -- 3 The Origin of Species: Evolutionary Taxonomy as an Example of the Rhetoric of Science, Alan G. Gross -- 4 Psychoanalysis: Science or Rhetoric?, Tullio Maranhao -- 5 Discursive Constraints on the Acceptance and Rejection of Knowledge Claims: The Conversation about Conversion, Robert E. Sanders -- 6 The Rhetoric of Decision Science, or Herbert A. Simon Says, Carolyn R. Miller -- Part Two: The Politics of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Politics -- 7 Arguing over Incommensurable Values: The Case of Machiavelli, Eugene Garver -- 8 Narrative Figures and Subtle Persuasions: The Rhetoric of the MOVE Report, Susan Wells -- 9 The Rhetoric of the Commons: Forum Discourse in Politics and Society, Manfred Stanley -- 10 Political Foundations for the Rhetoric of Inquiry, John S. Nelson -- Part Three: Philosophical Probes and Reflections -- 11 The Checkmate of Rhetoric (But Can Our Reasons Become Causes?), Kenneth J. Gergen -- 12 Reconciling Realism and Relativism, Joseph Margolis -- 13 Symbolic Realism and the Dualism of the Human Sciences: A Rhetorical Reformulation of the Debate between Positivism and Romanticism, Richard Harvey Brown -- 14 Rhetoric and Its Double: Reflections on the Rhetorical Turn in the Human Sciences, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Invention (Rhetoric)
Persuasion (Rhetoric)
Author Simons, Herbert W., 1935-
LC no. 89048007
ISBN 0226759016 (alk. paper)
0226759024 (paperback: alk. paper)