Marcello Pera

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The Discourses of ScienceHardcover, 1 December 1994

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Print Length
257 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
1 Dec 1994
ISBN-10
0226656179
ISBN-13
9780226656175

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In this much anticipated revision and translation of Scienza e Retorica, Marcello Pera argues that rhetoric is central to the making of scientific knowledge.

Pera begins with an attack of what he calls the Cartesian syndrome--the fixation on method common to both defenders of traditional philosophy of science and its detractors. He argues that in assuming the primacy of methodological rules, both sides get it wrong. Scientific knowledge is neither the simple mirror of nature nor a cultural construct imposed by contingent interests, thus we must replace the idea of scientific method with that of scientific rhetoric.

Pera proposes a new dialectics of science to overcome the tension between normative and descriptive philosophies of science by focusing on the rhetoric in the proposition, defense, and argumentation of theories. Examining the uses of rhetoric in debates drawn from Galileo's Dialogues, Darwin's Origins, and the Big Bang-Steady State controversy in cosmology, Pera shows how the conduct of science involves not just nature and the inquiring mind, but nature, the inquiring mind, and a questioning community which, through the process of attack, defense, and dispute, determines what is science. Rhetoric, then, is an essential element in the constitution of science as the practice of persuasive argumentation through which results gain acceptance.

Product Details

Author:
Marcello Pera
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 December 1994
Dimensions:
23.52 x 15.75 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
0226656179
ISBN-13:
9780226656175
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago, IL
Pages:
257
Weight:
553.38 gm

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