The Rhetorical Turn
Invention and Persuasion in the Conduct of Inquiry

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
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