Rhetoric & Dialectic in the Time of Galileo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhetoric & Dialectic in the Time of Galileo write by Jean Dietz Moss. This book was released on 2003. Rhetoric & Dialectic in the Time of Galileo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the teaching and practice of the twin arts of argumentation -- rhetoric and dialectic -- in the time of Galileo. Galileo was an ardent controversialist on behalf of his astronomical theories, yet many today are unacquainted with the kinds of argument that became a focal point in his famous trial. The authors combine their vast knowledge of rhetoric, history, and philosophy to explain the background of the dispute between science and religion. They present an engaging discussion of the prevailing modes of rhetorical and scientific arguments in Northern Italy during the Renaissance. They display primary texts on the arts of rhetoric and dialectic by authors whose thought was known to Galileo.
Galileo and the Art of Reasoning
Galileo and the Art of Reasoning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Galileo and the Art of Reasoning write by M.A. Finocchiaro. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Galileo and the Art of Reasoning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The work of Galileo has long been important not only as a foundation of modern physics but also as a model - and perhaps the paradigmatic model - of scientific method, and therefore as a leading example of scientific rationality. However, as we know, the matter is not so simple. The range of Galileo readings is so varied that one may be led to the conclusion that it is a case of chacun a son Galileo; that here, as with the Bible, or Plato or Kant or Freud or Finnegan's Wake, the texts themselves underdetermine just what moral is to be pointed. But if there is no canonical reading, how can the texts be taken as evidence or example of a canonical view of scientific rationality, as in Galileo? Or is it the case, instead, that we decide a priori what the norms of rationality are and then pick through texts to fmd those which satisfy these norms? Specifically, how and on what grounds are we to accept or reject scientific theories, or scientific reasoning? If we are to do this on the basis of historical analysis of how, in fact, theories came to be accepted or rejected, how shall we distinguish 'is' from 'ought'? What follows (if anything does) from such analysis or reconstruction about how theories ought to be accepted or rejected? Maurice Finocchiaro's study of Galileo brings an important and original approach to the question of scientific rationality by way of a systematic read
The Birth of Theory
The Birth of Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Birth of Theory write by Andrew Cole. This book was released on 2014-06-15. The Birth of Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory—Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel’s dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits of thought to fashion his own dialectic. While his contemporaries rejected premodern dialectic as outdated dogma, Hegel embraced both its emphasis on language as thought and its fascination with the categories of identity and difference, creating what we now recognize as theory, distinct from systematic philosophy. Not content merely to change philosophy, Hegel also used this dialectic to expose the persistent archaism of modern life itself, Cole shows, establishing a method of social analysis that has influenced everyone from Marx and the nineteenth-century Hegelians, to Nietzsche and Bakhtin, all the way to Deleuze and Jameson. By uncovering these theoretical filiations across time, The Birth of Theory will not only change the way we read Hegel, but also the way we think about the histories of theory. With chapters that powerfully reanimate the overly familiar topics of ideology, commodity fetishism, and political economy, along with a groundbreaking reinterpretation of Hegel’s famous master/slave dialectic, The Birth of Theory places the disciplines of philosophy, literature, and history in conversation with one another in an unprecedented way. Daring to reconcile the sworn enemies of Hegelianism and Deleuzianism, this timely book will revitalize dialectics for the twenty-first century.
Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe
Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe write by Dr Stephen Pender. This book was released on 2012-12-28. Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe. Although the range of theoretical approaches and methodologies represented here is diverse, the essays collectively explore the theories and practices, innovations and interventions, that underwrite the shared concerns of medicine, moral philosophy, and rhetoric: care and consolation, reading, policy, and rectitude, signinference, selfhood, and autonomy-all developed and refined at the intersection of areas of inquiry usually thought distinct. From Italy to England, from the sixteenth through to the mid-eighteenth century, early modern moral philosophers and essayists, rhetoricians and physicians investigated the passions and persuasion, vulnerability and volubility, theoretical intervention and practical therapy in the dramas, narratives, and disciplines of public and private cure. The essays are relevant to a wide range of readers, including cultural, literary, and intellectual historians, historians of medicine and philosophy, and scholars of rhetoric.
Galileo's Reading
Galileo's Reading - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Galileo's Reading write by Crystal Hall. This book was released on 2013-12-12. Galileo's Reading available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues the importance of Galileo's reading and engagement with a range of writers to the shaping of early modern philosophy.
