Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for..

Steve Fuller, James H. Collier9780805847673, 0805847677

Книга Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for… Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies Книги Психология, философия Автор: Steve Fuller, James H. Collier Год издания: 2003 Формат: pdf Издат.:Lawrence Erlbaum Страниц: 176 Размер: 1,4 ISBN: 0805847677 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:In this second edition of Steve Fuller’s original work Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies, James Collier joins Fuller in developing an updated and accessible version of Fuller’s classic volume. The new edition shifts focus slightly to balance the discussions of theory and practice, and the writing style is oriented to advanced students. It addresses the contemporary problems of knowledge to develop the basis for a more publicly accountable science. The resources of social epistemology are deployed to provide a positive agenda of research, teaching, and political action designed to bring out the best in both the ancient discipline of rhetoric and the emerging field of science and technology studies (STS). The authors reclaim and integrate STS and rhetoric to explore the problems of knowledge as a social process–problems of increasing public interest that extend beyond traditional disciplinary resources. In so doing, the differences among disciplines must be questioned (the exercise of STS) and the disciplinary boundaries must be renegotiated (the exercise of rhetoric). This book innovatively integrates a sophisticated theoretical approach to the social processes of creating knowledge with a developing pedagogical apparatus. The thought questions at the end of each chapter, the postscript, and the appendix allow the reader to actively engage the text in order to discuss and apply its theoretical insights. Creating new standards for interdisciplinary scholarship and communication, the authors bring numerous disciplines into conversation in formulating a new kind of rhetoric geared toward greater democratic participation in the knowledge-making process. This volume is intended for students and scholars in rhetoric of science, science studies, philosophy, and communication, and will be of interest in English, sociology, and knowledge management arenas as well.

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Table of contents :
PHILOSOPHY, RHETORIC,
AND THE END OF KNOWLEDGE……Page 4
Copyright……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
Acknowledgments……Page 10
PART I: THE PLAYERS AND THE POSITION……Page 30
HPS AS THE PREHISTORY OF STS……Page 32
THE TURN TO SOCIOLOGY AND STS……Page 36
RHETORIC: THE THEORY BEHIND THE PRACTICE……Page 43
ENTER THE SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGIST……Page 48
THOUGHT QUESTIONS……Page 55
THE TERMS OF THE ARGUMENT……Page 58
THE PERILS OF PLURALISM……Page 61
INTERPENETRATION¡¯S INTERLOPERS……Page 66
THE PRESSURE POINTS FOR INTERPENETRATION……Page 69
THE TASK AHEAD ( AND THE ENEMY WITHIN)……Page 75
THOUGHT QUESTIONS……Page 83
PART II: INTERPENETRATION AT WORK……Page 86
Tycho¡¯s Doctrine: Separate but ( Not Quite) Equal……Page 88
Tycho Goes Social ¡ª Too Little, Too Early……Page 91
Tycho Gets Blindsided by the Rear Guard……Page 94
Tycho Sans Class( icism)……Page 97
A Matter of Principle……Page 99
The Principle in Practice……Page 104
BUILDING THE BETTER NATURALIST……Page 107
THOUGHT QUESTIONS……Page 112
HOW SCIENCE BOTH REQUIRES AND IMPOSES DISCIPLINE……Page 115
Why the Scientific Study of Science Might Just Show That
There Is No Science to Study……Page 119
The Elusive Search for the Science in the Social Sciences:
Deconstructing the Five Canonical Histories……Page 125
Anthropology……Page 128
Sociology……Page 129
Political Science……Page 130
Economics……Page 131
Psychology……Page 132
HOWECONOMISTS DEFEATED POLITICAL SCIENTISTS AT THEIR OWN GAME……Page 133
THE RHETORIC THAT IS SCIENCE……Page 139
THOUGHT QUESTIONS……Page 143
OF RHETORICAL IMPASSES AND FORCED CHOICES……Page 146
SOME IMPASSES IN THE AI DEBATES……Page 148
DRAWING THE BATTLE LINES……Page 149
AI AS PC- POSITIVISM……Page 151
HOW MY ENEMY¡¯S ENEMY BECAME MY FRIEND……Page 154
BUT NOW THAT THE COAST IS CLEAR……Page 158
Simon ¡ª The Covering Cherub……Page 160
Chomsky ¡ª The Revisionist Historian……Page 161
Simon and Chomsky: The Fine Art of Strategic Positioning……Page 164
Language and Thought: Horse and Cart……Page 165
The Cognitive as Sacred Space……Page 167
The Cognitive as Misappropriated Society……Page 170
The Cognitive as Black Box……Page 173
AI¡¯S STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ACTANTS……Page 174
THOUGHT QUESTIONS……Page 178
POSITIONING SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY IN THE TRANSITION FROM HPS TO STS……Page 181
THE PRICE OF HUMANISM IN HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP……Page 186
The Fixation on Genius……Page 189
The Analytic Significance of Individuals……Page 190
A SYMMETRY PRINCIPLE FOR HISTORICISM……Page 192
HISTORICISM¡¯S VERSION OF THE COLD WAR:THE PROBLEM OF ACCESS……Page 194
UNDER- AND OVERDETERMINING HISTORY……Page 200
WHEN IN DOUBT, EXPERIMENT……Page 203
STS AS THE POSTHISTORY OF HPS……Page 208
THOUGHT QUESTIONS……Page 212
PART III: OF POLICY AND POLITICS……Page 214
7 Knowledge Policy: Where’s the Playing Field?……Page 216
SCIENCE POLICY: THE VERY IDEA……Page 217
AN ASIDE ON SCIENCE JOURNALISM……Page 221
MANAGING THE UNMANAGEABLE……Page 223
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY……Page 232
The Rhetoric of Rationality Attributions……Page 235
The Rhetoric of Fact- Value Distinctions……Page 237
ARMED FOR POLICY:FACT- LADEN VALUES AND HYPOTHETICAL IMPERATIVES……Page 240
MACHIAVELLI REDUX?……Page 246
A RECAP ON VALUES AS A PRELUDE TO POLITICS……Page 250
THOUGHT QUESTIONS……Page 251
PHILOSOPHY AS PROTOPOLITICS……Page 254
HAVE SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY OUTGROWN EACH OTHER?……Page 257
BACK FROM POSTMODERNISM AND INTO THE PUBLIC SPHERE……Page 263
BEYOND ACADEMIC INDIFFERENCE……Page 272
THE SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGIST AT THE BARGAINING TABLE……Page 278
THOUGHT QUESTIONS……Page 286
PART IV: SOME WORTHY OPPONENTS……Page 288
THE SOCRATIC LEGACY TO RELATIVISM……Page 290
THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE DEBATES:WILL THE REAL RELATIVIST PLEASE STAND UP?……Page 291
INTERLUDE I: AN INVENTORY OF RELATIVISMS……Page 294
INTERLUDE II: MANNHEIM¡¯S REALISTIC RELATIVISM……Page 296
IS RELATIVISM OBSOLETE?……Page 297
General Ways of Thinking About the Interpenetration of Science and Society……Page 303
A Model of Knowledge Production Specific to Social Epistemology……Page 305
Relativism Revived:Can Social Epistemology Survive the Reflexive Turn?……Page 307
THOUGHT QUESTIONS……Page 312
10 Opposing the Antitheorist……Page 314
What Exactly Does “Theory Has No Consequences” Mean?……Page 317
FISH¡¯S POSITIVISTIC THEORY OF ¡° THEORY¡±……Page 319
TOWARD A MORE SELF- CRITICAL POSITIVIST THEORY OF “ THEORY”……Page 322
THE UNIVERSALITY, ABSTRACTNESS, AND FOOLPROOFNESS OF THEORY……Page 323
Convention, Autonomy, and Fish’s “Paper Radicalism”……Page 326
CONSEQUENTIAL THEORY: AN ACCOUNT OF PRESUMPTION……Page 329
Presumption in Legal Matters……Page 331
Presumption in Epistemic Matters……Page 334
THOUGHT QUESTIONS……Page 338
Postscript:
The World of Tomorrow, as Opposed to the World of Today……Page 340
Appendix:
Course Outlines for STS in a Rhetorical Key……Page 345
References……Page 352