Locke S Essay And The Rhetoric Of Science

Author : Peter Walmsley
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0838755437

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Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science by Peter Walmsley Pdf

This book shows how, in his enormously influential 'Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1689), John Locke embraces the new rhetoric of seventeenth-century natrual philosophy, adopting the strategies of his scientific contemporaries to create a highly original natural history of the human mind. With the help of Locke's notebooks, letters and journals, Peter Walmsley reconstructs Locke's scientific career, including his early work with the chemist Robert Boyle and the physician Thomas Sydenham. He also shows how the 'Essay' embodies in its form and language many of the preoccupations of the science of its day, from the emerging discourses of experimentation and empirical taxonomy to developments in embryology and the history of trades. The result is a new reading of Locke, one that shows both his brilliance as a writer and his originality in turning to science to effect a radical reinvention of the study of the mind.

Author : Zachary Sng
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804775090

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The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist by Zachary Sng Pdf

Eighteenth-century Europe, preoccupied with both the origins and the defense of reason, was naturally concerned with what might be the root of all error. A topic any systematic account of knowledge must grapple with, error became a frequent point of debate in new scientific, aesthetic, and philosophical investigations. Taking John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding as his point of departure, Sng examines a number of such debates, focusing on literary and philosophical accounts of the relationship between language and thought. Rather than approaching its topic conceptually or historically, he takes on canonical texts of the Enlightenment and Romanticism and engages with their rhetorical strategies. In so doing, Sng elucidates how people wrote about error and how texts claimed to produce reliable and error-free modes of knowledge. The range of authors addressed—Leibniz, Adam Smith, Coleridge, Kant, and Goethe—demonstrates the diversity and heterogeneity underlying the textual production of the age.

Author : John Locke
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141907284

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke Pdf

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some knowledge is innate in us, Locke argues that it derives from sense perceptions and experience, as analysed and developed by reason. While defending these central claims with vigorous common sense, Locke offers many incidental - and highly influential - reflections on space and time, meaning, free will and personal identity. The result is a powerful, pioneering work, which, together with Descartes's works, largely set the agenda for modern philosophy.

Author : Ryan J. Stark
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813215785

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Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-century England by Ryan J. Stark Pdf

Ryan J. Stark presents a spiritually sensitive, interdisciplinary, and original discussion of early modern English rhetoric. He shows specifically how experimental philosophers attempted to disenchant language

Author : Torrey Shanks
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271066011

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Authority Figures by Torrey Shanks Pdf

In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Locke’s well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of Locke’s work. Rhetoric and experience come together, for Locke, to reorient readers’ relation to the past in order to open up alternative political futures. Recognizing this debt sets the stage for a new understanding of the Two Treatises of Government, in which the material and creative force of language is necessary for political critique. Authority Figures draws together political theory and philosophy, the history of science and of rhetoric, and philosophy of language and literary theory to offer an interpretation of Locke’s political thought that shows the ongoing importance of rhetoric for new modes of critique in the seventeenth century. Locke’s thought offers up insights for rethinking the relationship of rhetoric and experience to political critique, as well as the intersections of language and materialism.

Author : Matt Priselac
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317418252

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Locke's Science of Knowledge by Matt Priselac Pdf

John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding begins with a clear statement of an epistemological goal: to explain the limits of human knowledge, opinion, and ignorance. The actual text of the Essay, in stark contrast, takes a long and seemingly meandering path before returning to that goal at the Essay’s end—one with many detours through questions in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. Over time, Locke scholarship has come to focus on Locke’s contributions to these parts of philosophy. In Locke’s Science of Knowledge, Priselac refocuses on the Essay’s epistemological thread, arguing that the Essay is unified from beginning to end around its compositional theory of ideas and the active role Locke gives the mind in constructing its thoughts. To support the plausibility and demonstrate the value of this interpretation, Priselac argues that—contrary to its reputation as being at best sloppy and at worst outright inconsistent—Locke’s discussion of skepticism and account of knowledge of the external world fits neatly within the Essay’s epistemology.

Author : Alexander Wragge-Morley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226680866

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Aesthetic Science by Alexander Wragge-Morley Pdf

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. In Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. To show how early modern naturalists conceived of the interplay between sensory experience and the production of knowledge, Aesthetic Science explores natural-historical and anatomical works of the Royal Society through the lens of the aesthetic. By underscoring the importance of subjective experience to the communication of knowledge about nature, Wragge-Morley offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences.

Author : R. S. Woolhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : UOM:39015000637523

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Locke's Philosophy of Science and Knowledge by R. S. Woolhouse Pdf

Author : Tina Skouen,Ryan Stark
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004283701

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Rhetoric and the Early Royal Society by Tina Skouen,Ryan Stark Pdf

This volume is a sourcebook for those interested in how the experimentalists of the seventeenth century profoundly shaped modern scholarly communication.

Author : Michael J Zerbe
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 0809327406

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Composition and the Rhetoric of Science by Michael J Zerbe Pdf

Composition and the Rhetoric of Science: Engaging the Dominant Discourse calls for instructors of first-year writing courses to employ primary scientific discourse in their teaching and for rhetoricians of science to think about teaching scientific discourse as a literacy skill. Author Michael J. Zerbe argues that inclusion of scientific discourse is crucial because of this rhetoric’s status as the dominant discourse in western culture. The volume draws on Lyotard, Žižek, Foucault, and Althusser to argue that while important theorists such as these have recognized the dominance of scientific discourse, rhetoric and composition has not—to its detriment. The textillustrates that scientific discourse remains a miniscule part of the enterprise of rhetoric and composition and thus the field is not fulfilling its mission of providing students with the writing and reading skills they need to live and work in a science- and technology-dependent society. Zerbe provides an analysis of science popularizations and demonstrates how these works can be used to contextualize primary scientific research. He also presents three pedagogical scenarios, each built around a carefully chosen, accessible example of scientific discourse, that demonstrate how articles from scientific journals can be used in writing courses. Only by gaining a meaningful fluency in this discourse—one that is not offered by science textbooks—can a more sophisticated scientific literacy be assured. Composition and the Rhetoric of Science effectively explores the relatively limited amount of work done in rhetoric and composition on scientific discourse and questions this state of affairs. Zerbe presents for the first time cultural studies and science literacy as gateways for incorporating scientific discourse into first-year writing courses.

Author : David R. Gruber,Lynda C. Olman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351207829

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science by David R. Gruber,Lynda C. Olman Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science provides a state-of-the-art volume on the language of scientific processes and communications. This book offers comprehensive coverage of socio-cultural approaches to science, as well as analysing new theoretical developments and incorporating discussions about future directions within the field. Featuring original contributions from an international range of renowned scholars, as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research, this handbook: identifies common objects of inquiry across the areas of rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication studies, science and technology studies, and public understanding of science; covers the four key themes of power, pedagogy, public engagement, and materiality in relation to the study of scientific language and its development; uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to demonstrate how humanities and social science scholars can go about studying science; details the meaning and purpose of socio-cultural approaches to science, including the impact of new media technologies; analyses the history of the field and how it positions itself in relation to other areas of study. Ushering the study of language and science toward a more interdisciplinary, diverse, communal and ecological future, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.

Author : Susan Wells
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226893375

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Sweet Reason by Susan Wells Pdf

In Sweet Reason, Susan Wells presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read. In order to comprehend how these texts organize our world, she argues, we must grasp how reason and desire interact to create meaning. To this end, Wells offers a rhetoric based on an understanding of meaning as intersubjectivity created through the work of language. Wells elaborates this "rhetoric of intersubjectivity" by drawing on both Jürgen Habermas's concept of communicative rationality and on Jacques Lacan's theory of desire, affirming the significance of reason and desire for rhetorical studies. From scientific articles to classroom altercations, contemporary government hearings to Mantaigne's Essays, Wells organizes several using rhetoric as an art, and she shows how rhetoric operates in practice. Susan Wells is associate professor of English at Temple University.

Author : Andrea A. Lunsford,Kirt H. Wilson,Rosa A. Eberly
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781452212036

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The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies by Andrea A. Lunsford,Kirt H. Wilson,Rosa A. Eberly Pdf

The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies surveys the latest advances in rhetorical scholarship, synthesizing theories and practices across major areas of study in the field and pointing the way for future studies. Edited by Andrea A. Lunsford and Associate Editors Kirt H. Wilson and Rosa A. Eberly, the Handbook aims to introduce a new generation of students to rhetorical study and provide a deeply informed and ready resource for scholars currently working in the field.

Author : R. S. Woolhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638809850

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Locke's Philosophy of Science and Knowledge by R. S. Woolhouse Pdf

Author : Lisa Keränen
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817317041

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Scientific Characters by Lisa Keränen Pdf

Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: "Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade." Moving back and forth between news coverage, medical journals, letters to the editor, and oncology pamphlets, Lisa Keränen draws insights from rhetoric, literary studies, sociology, and science studies to analyze the roles of character in shaping the outcomes of the "Datagate" controversy.