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Author(s): Steve Fuller, James H. Collier,
ISBN(s): 9781410609625, 1410609626
Edition: 2
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Year: 2004
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ISBN 10: 1410609626 
ISBN 13: 9781410609625
Author: Steve Fuller, James H Collier 

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.

Philosophy Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies 2nd Table of contents:

Part I The Players and the Position
1 The Players: STS, Rhetoric, and Social Epistemology
HPS as the Prehistory of STS
The Turn to Sociology and STS
Rhetoric: The Theory Behind the Practice
Enter the Social Epistemologist
Thought Questions
2 The Position: Interdisciplinarity as Interpenetration
The Terms of the Argument
The Perils of Pluralism
Interpenetration’s Interlopers
The Pressure Points for Interpenetration
The Task Ahead (And the Enemy within)
Here I Stand
Thought Questions
Part II Interpenetration at Work
3 Incorporation, or Epistemology Emergent
Tycho on the Run
Tycho’s Doctrine: Separate but (Not Quite) Equal
Tycho Goes Social—Too Little, Too Early
Tycho Gets Blindsided by the Rear Guard
Tycho Sans Class(icism)
Hegel to the Rescue
A Matter of Principle
The Principle in Practice
Building the Better Naturalist
Naturalism’s Trial by Fire
Thought Questions
4 Reflexion, or the Missing Mirror of the Social Sciences
How Science Both Requires and Imposes Discipline
Why the Scientific Study of Science might Just Show that there is No Science to Study
The Elusive Search for the Science in the Social Sciences: Deconstructing the Five Canonical Histories
Anthropology
Sociology
Political Science
Economics
Psychology
How Economists Defeated Political Scientists at their Own Game
The Rhetoric that is Science
Thought Questions
5 Sublimation, or Some Hints on How to Be Cognitively Revolting
Of Rhetorical Impasses and Forced Choices
Some Impasses in the AI Debates
Drawing the Battle Lines
AI as Pc-Positivism
How My Enemy’s Enemy became My Friend
But Now that the Coast is Clear
Simon—The Covering Cherub
Chomsky—The Revisionist Historian
Simon and Chomsky: The Fine Art of Strategic Positioning
Language and Thought: Horse and Cart
Three Attempts to Clarify the Cognitive
The Cognitive as Sacred Space
The Cognitive as Misappropriated Society
The Cognitive as Black Box
AI’s Strange Bedfellows: Actants
Thought Questions
6 Excavation, or the Withering Away of History and Philosophy of Science and the Brave New World of Science and Technology Studies
Positioning Social Epistemology in the Transition from HPS to STS
The Price of Humanism in Historical Scholarship
The Fixation on Genius
The Presumption of Scientific Competence
The Analytic Significance of Individuals
A Symmetry Principle for Historicism
Historicism’s Version of the Cold War: The Problem of Access
Under- and Overdetermining History
When in Doubt, Experiment
STS as the Posthistory of HPS
Thought Questions
Part III Of Policy and Politics
7 Knowledge Policy: Where’s the Playing Field?
Science Policy: The Very Idea
An Aside on Science Journalism
Managing the Unmanageable
The Social Construction of Society
The Constructive Rhetoric of Knowledge Policy
The Rhetoric of Rationality Attributions
The Rhetoric of Fact-Value Distinctions
Armed for Policy: Fact-Laden Values and Hypothetical Imperatives
Machiavelli Redux?
A Recap on Values as a Prelude to Politics
Thought Questions
8 Knowledge Politics: What Position Shall I Play?
Philosophy as Protopolitics
Have Science and Democracy Outgrown Each Other?
Back From Postmodernism and into the Public Sphere
Beyond Academic Indifference
The Social Epistemologist at the Bargaining Table
1 Traditional
2 Modern
3 Postmodern
Thought Questions
Part IV Some Worthy Opponents
9 Opposing the Relativist
The Socratic Legacy to Relativism
The Sociology of Knowledge Debates: Will the Real Relativist Please Stand Up?
Interlude I: An Inventory of Relativisms
Interlude II: Mannheim’s Realistic Relativism
Is Relativism Obsolete?
Counterrelativist Models of Knowledge Production
General Ways of Thinking About the Interpenetration of Science and Society
A Model of Knowledge Production Specific to Social Epistemology
Relativism Revived: Can Social Epistemology Survive the Reflexive Turn?
Thought Questions
10 Opposing the Antitheorist
What Exactly Does “Theory has No Consequences” Mean?
Fish’s Positivistic Theory of “Theory”
Toward a More Self-Critical Positivist Theory of “Theory”
The Universality, Abstractness, and Foolproofness of Theory
Convention, Autonomy, and Fish’s “Paper Radicalism”
Consequential Theory: an Account of Presumption
Presumption in Legal Matters
Presumption in Epistemic Matters
Thought Questions
Postscript: The World of Tomorrow, as Opposed to the World of Today
Appendix: Course Outlines for STS in a Rhetorical Key
Scientific and Technical Communication

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