The Rhetoric of the human sciences : language and argument in scholarship and public affairs / edited by John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, & Donald N. McCloskey.

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Alternate Title:Language and argument in scholarship and public affairs
Other Authors: Nelson, John S., 1950-, Megill, Allan., McCloskey, Deirdre N.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
Series:Rhetoric of the human sciences.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rhetoric of inquiry / J.S. Nelson, Allen Megill, D.N. McCloskey
  • Modern sophistic and the unity of rhetoric / M.C. Leff
  • Science as solidarity / Richard Rorty
  • Rhetoric and mathematics / P.J. Davis, Reuben Hersh
  • Charles Darwin: rhetorician of science / J.A. Campbell
  • Where objectivity lies: the rhetoric of anthropology / Renato Rosaldo
  • Paradise lost: the theme of terrestriality in human evolution / Misia Landau
  • Codifying the social scientific style: the APA Publication Manual as a behaviorist rhetoric / Charles Bazerman
  • Turning psychology on itself: the rhetoric of psychology and the psychology of rhetoric / D.E. Carlston
  • As if economists and their subjects were rational / Arjo Klamer
  • Reason as rhetorical: on relations among epistemology, discourse, and practice / R.H. Brown
  • Stories of science and politics: some rhetorics of political research / J.S. Nelson
  • The rhetoric of history / Allan Megill, D.N. McCloskey
  • On the weakness of language in the human sciences / G.L. Bruns
  • Literary interpretation and the rhetoric of the human sciences / Paul Hernadi
  • The rhetoric of theological argument / D.E. Klemm
  • Rhetoric and law: the arts of cultural and communal life / J.B. White
  • Feminist political rhetoric and women's studies / J.B. Elshtain
  • The human sciences and the liberal polity in rhetorical relationship / C.W. Anderson
  • The rhetoric of social science: the political responsibilities of the scholar / M.J. Shapiro
  • What are nice folks like you doing in a place like this? Some entailments of treating knowledge claims rhetorically / M.C. McGee, J.R. Lyne
  • Seven rhetorics of inquiry: a provocation / J.S. Nelson.