Questions of Evidence : Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines

James Chandler

ISBN 10: 0226100839 / ISBN 13: 9780226100838

Editore: The University Of Chicago Press Sep 1994, 1994

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Neuware - This anthology brings together thirteen major essays by leading scholars and researchers in multiple fields across the sciences and humanities. In addition, each essay is accompanied by a never-before-published critical response and a rejoinder by the author of the original essay.

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• Titolo: Questions of Evidence : Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines
• Editore: The University Of Chicago Press Sep 1994
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226100839
• ISBN 13: 9780226100838
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Biologists, historians, lawyers, art historians, and literary critics all voice arguments in the critical dialogue about what constitutes evidence in research and scholarship. They examine not only the constitution and "blurring" of disciplinary boundaries, but also the configuration of the fact-evidence distinctions made in different disciplines and historical moments; the relative function of such concepts as "self-evidence," "experience," "test," "testimony," and "textuality" in varied academic discourses; and the way "rules of evidence" are themselves products of historical developments.

The essays and rejoinders are by Terry Castle, Lorraine Daston, Carlo Ginzburg, Ian Hacking, Mark Kelman, R. C. Lewontin, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Mary Poovey, Donald Preziosi, Simon Schaffer, Joan W. Scott, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith.

The critical responses are by Lauren Berlant, James Chandler, Jean Comaroff, Arnold I. Davidson, Harry D. harootunian, Elizabeth Helsinger, Thomas C. Holt, Francoise Meltzer, Robert J. Richards, Lawrence Rothfield, Joel Snyder, Cass R. Sunstein, and William Wimsatt.

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