Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (8)
- Communication (6)
- English Language and Literature (6)
- Rhetoric (6)
- Rhetoric and Composition (6)
-
- Speech and Rhetorical Studies (6)
- Ethics and Political Philosophy (2)
- Animal Sciences (1)
- Animal Studies (1)
- Animals (1)
- Comparative Psychology (1)
- Continental Philosophy (1)
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (1)
- Life Sciences (1)
- Mass Communication (1)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (1)
- Organisms (1)
- Other Animal Sciences (1)
- Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (1)
- Psychology (1)
- Science and Technology Studies (1)
- Institution
- Keyword
-
- Articles (6)
- Scientific rhetoric (3)
- AIDS (2)
- Accounts (2)
- Scientific discovery (2)
-
- Belief (1)
- Book Review (1)
- Claim substantiation (1)
- Commercialization (1)
- Consciousness in Animals (1)
- Dark energy (1)
- Evolutionary theory (1)
- Expanding universe (1)
- Faith (1)
- Gandhi (1)
- Heretical hypothesis (1)
- Hypothesis-generation (1)
- Knowledge Society (1)
- Kuhn (1)
- Laboratory rhetoric (1)
- Language (1)
- Local rhetoric (1)
- Metal continuity claim (1)
- Modern synthesis (1)
- Nihilism (1)
- Nobel prize (1)
- Non-representational belief (1)
- PROSE (1)
- Paradigm (1)
- Philosophy (1)
Articles 1 - 10 of 10
Full-Text Articles in Philosophy of Science
Owning A Virus: The Rhetoric Of Scientific Discovery Accounts, Carol Reeves
Owning A Virus: The Rhetoric Of Scientific Discovery Accounts, Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
No Abstract Available
"I Knew There Was Something Wrong With That Paper": Scientific Rhetorical Styles And Scientific Misunderstandings, Carol Reeves
"I Knew There Was Something Wrong With That Paper": Scientific Rhetorical Styles And Scientific Misunderstandings, Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
This selection unpacks scientific prose and claim substantiation for Nobel Prize winner, Stan Prusiner, in the transmissible spongiform encephlopathies field (i.e., mad cow disease). Applying linguistic strategies such as M. A. K. Halliday's "favorite clause type," the author examines argumentative strategies in dense scientific prose both in bold and cautious rhetorical styles and invented lexical changes in new scientific development.
Visual Rhetoric And The Promotion Of Scientific Ideas: The Strange Case Of The Prion, Carol Reeves
Visual Rhetoric And The Promotion Of Scientific Ideas: The Strange Case Of The Prion, Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
In the field that investigates infectious brain diseases such as mad cow disease, the verbal and visual packaging of scientific visuals associated with identifying the agent, prion, its processes, and structure served the community ritual of establishing belief in a highly unorthodox phenomenon. Visual promotion fed into cultural expectations of single agents and simple processes, even though the actual agency and disease process have proven highly complex and perhaps unknowable.
An Orthodox Heresy: Scientific Rhetoric And The Science Of Prions., Carol Reeves
An Orthodox Heresy: Scientific Rhetoric And The Science Of Prions., Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
A significant theoretical shift in the research community examining a class of terminal, infectious neurological disorders that includes Mad Cow Disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and Kuru was assisted by rhetorical production. The local rhetoric of one laboratory, that of Professor Stanley B. Prusiner, involved first situating an heretical hypothesis within the framework of the orthodox narrative and then audaciously promoting that heresy. Another aspect of rhetorical production in this case involved situating a new language associated with the heretical hypothesis. To promote their new lexicon, the Prusiner team evoked orthodox values of consistency, efficiency, and collective ratification. Eventually, what was once …
Rhetoric And The Aids Virus Hunt, Carol Reeves
Rhetoric And The Aids Virus Hunt, Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
By comparing the papers produced by the laboratory teams of Robert Gallo and Jean Luc Montagnier during the AIDS virus hunt, we have an opportunity to discern the fine line between a bold, explicit rhetoric that may convince as well as offend and a bald, reserved rhetoric that may actually conceal important implications. Going too far in either direction may create misunderstandings and ethical dilemmas as will be demonstrated in a textual analysis deepened by an exploration of historical context and interviews with key participants. Since a public health crisis calls upon communication that thwarts misunderstandings, scientists should understand the …
Establishing The Phenomenon: The Rhetoric Of Early Research Reports On Aids, Carol Reeves
Establishing The Phenomenon: The Rhetoric Of Early Research Reports On Aids, Carol Reeves
Carol Reeves
In the first three medical reports on AIDS which were published in 1981 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the writers' primary rhetorical agenda was to argue that a new medical discovery had been made. A secondary agenda was to offer etiological explanations for the new problem. To establish the new disease entity as deserving serious attention, the writers built a sense of mystery by confronting established medical knowledge about immunodeficiency and emphasizing the inability of modern medicine to diagnose and treat the problem. When they explained the phenomenon in etiological terms, rather than confronting the disciplinary matrix, the …
There Goes The Universe, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
There Goes The Universe, Mary-Jane V. Rubenstein
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
No abstract provided.
Confronting Language, Representation, And Belief: A Limited Defense Of Mental Continuity, Kristin Andrews, Ljiljana Radenovic
Confronting Language, Representation, And Belief: A Limited Defense Of Mental Continuity, Kristin Andrews, Ljiljana Radenovic
Kristin Andrews, PhD
According to the mental continuity claim (MCC), human mental faculties are physical and beneficial to human survival, so they must have evolved gradually from ancestral forms and we should expect to see their precursors across species. Materialism of mind coupled with Darwin’s evolutionary theory leads directly to such claims and even today arguments for animal mental properties are often presented with the MCC as a premise. However, the MCC has been often challenged among contemporary scholars. It is usually argued that only humans use language and that language as such has no precursors in the animal kingdom. Moreover, language is …
Knowledge In Society And The Knowledge Society: Opening The Debate For A New Millennium, Ananya Vajpeyi
Knowledge In Society And The Knowledge Society: Opening The Debate For A New Millennium, Ananya Vajpeyi
Ananya Vajpeyi
No abstract provided.
Fiction, Science, Or Faith – The Structure Of Scientific Revolution: A Planners Perspective. Another Visit To Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions., Michael A. Rodriguez Ph.D.
Fiction, Science, Or Faith – The Structure Of Scientific Revolution: A Planners Perspective. Another Visit To Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions., Michael A. Rodriguez Ph.D.
Anthony M Rodriguez Ph.D.
Thomas Kuhn and his work in 'The structure of scientific revolutions' is evaluated in the context of faith, science, and what constitute true change. Additionally, the notion of science and faith are contended as important relationships in true change.