The Rhetorical turn : invention and persuasion in the conduct of inquiry / edited by Herbert W. Simons.

Includes bibliographical references.

The rhetoric of inquiry as an intellectual movement / Herbert W. Simons -- Bio-rhetorics : moralizing the life sciences / John Lyne -- Scientific discovery and rhetorical invention : the path to Darwin's Origin / John Angus Campbell -- The Origin of species : evolutionary taxonomy as an example of the rhetoric of science / Alan G. Gross -- Psychoanalysis : science or rhetoric? / Tullio Maranhão -- Discursive constraints on the acceptance and rejection of knowledge claims : the conversation about conversation / Robert E. Sanders -- The rhetoric of decision science, or Herbert A. Simon says / Carolyn R. Miller -- Arguing over imcommensurable values : the case of Machiavelli / Eugene Garver -- Narrative figures and subtle persuasions : the rhetoric of MOVE report / Susan Wells -- The rhetoric of the Commons : forum discourse in politics and society / Manfred Stanley -- Political foundations for the rhetoric of inquiry / John S. Nelson -- The checkmate of rhetoric (but can our reason become causes?) / Kenneth J. Gergen -- Reconciling realism and relativism / Joseph Margolis -- Symbolic realism and the dualism of the human sciences : a rhetorical reformulation of the debate between positivism and romanticism / Richard Harvey Brown -- Rhetoric and its double : reflections on the rhetorical turn in the human sciences / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar.