The Discourses of Science

by Marcello Pera

In this much anticipated revision and translation of Scienza e Retorica, Marcello Pera argues that rhetoric is central to the making of scientific knowledge.

Pera begins with an attack of what he calls the "Cartesian syndrome"--the fixation on method common to both defenders of traditional philosophy of science and its detractors. He argues that in assuming the primacy of methodological rules, both sides get it wrong. Scientific knowledge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226656179
• ISBN13: 9780226656175
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"