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Book The Rhetoric of Empiricism

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Empiricism written by Jules David Law and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empiricism favors the visual over the verbal, the literal over the rhetorical, the static over the temporal: This is the standard charge leveled by literary theorists and writers. It is, Jules David Law demonstrates, remarkably misguided. His ambitious and challenging book explores the interplay of language and visual perception at the heart of empiricism. A re-evaluation of the British empiricist tradition from the perspective of contemporary literary theory, it also offers a sustained challenge to theory itself. In failing to grasp the issues confronting early empiricist writers or to be fully aware of their rhetorical strategies, Law says, theory has defined itself needlessly in opposition to empiricism. -- Description from http://www.booktopia.com.au (April 19, 2012).

Book  Discourses that Pretend to Inform Or Instruct

Download or read book Discourses that Pretend to Inform Or Instruct written by Roger Elliott and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treatise on Rhetoric

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  • Author : Aristotle
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1853
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book Treatise on Rhetoric written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aristotle s Empiricism

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  • Author : Marc Gasser-Wingate
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021-04-05
  • ISBN : 0197567479
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Aristotle s Empiricism written by Marc Gasser-Wingate and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle is famous for thinking that all our knowledge comes from perception. But it's not immediately clear what this view is meant to entail. It's not clear, for instance, what perception is supposed to contribute to the more advanced forms of knowledge that derive from it. Nor is it clear how we should understand the nature of its contributionwhat it might mean to say that these more advanced forms of knowledge are "derived from" or "based on" what we perceive. Aristotle is often thought to have disappointingly little to say on these matters. Gasser-Wingate makes the case that this thought is mistaken: a coherent and philosophically attractive view of perceptual knowledge can be found in the various texts in which Aristotle discusses perception's role in animal life, the cognitive resources on which it does and does not depend, and the relation it bears to practical and theoretical modes of understanding. Aristotle's Empiricism offers a sustained examination of these discussions and their epistemological, psychological, and ethical implications. It defends an interpretation of Aristotle as a moderate sort of empiricist, who thinks we can develop sophisticated forms of knowledge by broadly perceptual meansand that we therefore share an important part of our cognitive lives with nonrational animalsbut also holds that our intellectual powers allow us to surpass these animals in certain ways and thereby develop distinctively human forms of understanding.

Book The  Early  Logical Empiricism of J M  Keynes Versus the Rhetoric of Subjectivism

Download or read book The Early Logical Empiricism of J M Keynes Versus the Rhetoric of Subjectivism written by Michael Emmett Brady and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economists have been unable to comprehend the logical framework of Keynes' A Treatise on Probability (1921) and General Theory (1936). This is due to their failure to read both works in their entirety. Instead, they concentrate on the first three chapters of Part I of the General Theory or the Treatise. This can be attributed to an “approach” to philosophy which rejects any type of formal, analytical, logical technique in favor of a purely speculative approach that eventually leads down the road to a priorism and subjectism. Keynes's decision approach is based on the general case of non-linearity and non-additivity. His decision theory incorporates neoclassical decision theory as a special case.

Book Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics

Download or read book Beyond Rhetoric and Realism in Economics written by Thomas Boylan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1995-06-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boylan and O'Gorman inject a fresh empiricist voice into the debate on economic methodology. They strike a reasonable middle ground between the extremes of scientific realism and the rhetoric of economics.

Book The Philosophy of Rhetoric

Download or read book The Philosophy of Rhetoric written by George Campbell and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1988-03-01 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, after a quarter century of additional study and reflection, Bitzer presents a new critical edition of George Campbell’s classic. Bitzer provides a more complete review and assessment of Campbell’s work, giving particular emphasis to Campbell’s theological views, which he demonstrates played an important part in Campbell’s overall view of reasoning, feeling, and moral and religious truth. The Rhetoric is widely regarded as the most important statement of a theory of rhetoric produced in the 18th century. Its importance lies, in part, in the fact that the theory is informed by the leading assumptions and themes of the Scottish Enlightenment—the prevailing empiricism, the theory of the association of ideas, the effort to explain natural phenomena by reference to principles and processes of human nature. Campbell’s work engages such themes in an attempt to formulate a universal theory of human communication. Campbell attempts to develop his theory by discovering deep principles in human nature that account for all instances and kinds of human communication. He seeks to derive all communication principles and processes empirically. In addition, all statements in discourse that have to do with matters of fact and human affairs are likewise to be empirically derived. Thus, his theory of rhetoric is vastly wider than, and different from, such classical theories as those proposed by Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, whose theories focused on discourse related to civic affairs. Bitzer shows that, by attempting to elaborate a general theory of rhetoric through empirical procedures, Campbell’s project reveals the limitations of his method. He cannot ground all statements empirically and it is at this point that his theological position comes into play. Inspection of his religious views shows that God’s design of human nature, and God’s revelations to humankind, make moral and spiritual truths known and quite secure to human beings, although not empirically.

Book Logical Empiricism and Post   empiricism in Educational Discourse

Download or read book Logical Empiricism and Post empiricism in Educational Discourse written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aristotle

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  • Author : Jonathan Barnes
  • Publisher : Edicoes Loyola
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9788515022144
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Aristotle written by Jonathan Barnes and published by Edicoes Loyola. This book was released on 1982 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's scientific research, logic and metaphysical theories, psychology and ethics and politics, all in their historical contexts.

Book Born Yesterday

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  • Author : Stephanie Insley Hershinow
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 2020-08-04
  • ISBN : 1421438836
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Born Yesterday written by Stephanie Insley Hershinow and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on bold close readings, Born Yesterday alters the landscape of literary historical eighteenth-century studies and challenges some of novel theory's most well-worn assumptions.

Book Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy

Download or read book Logical Empiricism as Scientific Philosophy written by Alan Richardson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element offers a new account of the philosophical significance of logical empiricism that relies on the past forty years of literature reassessing the project. It argues that while logical empiricism was committed to empiricism and did become tied to the trajectory of analytic philosophy, neither empiricism nor logical analysis per se was the deepest philosophical commitment of logical empiricism. That commitment was, rather, securing the scientific status of philosophy, bringing philosophy into a scientific conception of the world.

Book Songs of Experience

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  • Author : Martin Jay
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2005-01-10
  • ISBN : 9780520939790
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book Songs of Experience written by Martin Jay and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-01-10 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few words in both everyday parlance and theoretical discourse have been as rhapsodically defended or as fervently resisted as "experience." Yet, to date, there have been no comprehensive studies of how the concept of experience has evolved over time and why so many thinkers in so many different traditions have been compelled to understand it. Songs of Experience is a remarkable history of Western ideas about the nature of human experience written by one of our best-known intellectual historians. With its sweeping historical reach and lucid comparative analysis—qualities that have made Martin Jay's previous books so distinctive and so successful—Songs of Experience explores Western discourse from the sixteenth century to the present, asking why the concept of experience has been such a magnet for controversy. Resisting any single overarching narrative, Jay discovers themes and patterns that transcend individuals and particular schools of thought and illuminate the entire spectrum of intellectual history. As he explores the manifold contexts for understanding experience—epistemological, religious, aesthetic, political, and historical—Jay engages an exceptionally broad range of European and American traditions and thinkers from the American pragmatists and British Marxist humanists to the Frankfurt School and the French poststructuralists, and he delves into the thought of individual philosophers as well, including Montaigne, Bacon, Locke, Hume and Kant, Oakeshott, Collingwood, and Ankersmit. Provocative, engaging, erudite, this key work will be an essential source for anyone who joins the ongoing debate about the material, linguistic, cultural, and theoretical meaning of "experience" in modern cultures.

Book Essays in Radical Empiricism

Download or read book Essays in Radical Empiricism written by William James and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays in Radical Empiricism" by William James. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book A Criminological Imagination

Download or read book A Criminological Imagination written by Pat Carlen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Criminological Imagination contains a selection of key articles from Pat Carlen's research studies of magistrates' courts and women's imprisonment together with a range of other articles on social control, discourse analysis, ideology, punishment, criminology and critique. They are all informed by an assumption that while criminal justice must remain imaginary in societies based upon unequal and exploitative social relations, one task of a criminological imagination might be to suggest why this is so, and how things could be otherwise. This is an invaluable collection for anyone interested in crime, justice and injustice and the social, political and academic contexts in which knowledge of them is constructed.

Book Empiricisms

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  • Author : Barry Allen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 0197508936
  • Pages : 541 pages

Download or read book Empiricisms written by Barry Allen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Empiricisms reassesses the values of experience and experiment in European philosophy and comparatively. It traces the history of empirical philosophy from its birth in Greek medicine to its emergence as a philosophy of modern science. A richly detailed account in Part I of history's empiricisms establishes a context in Part II for reconsidering the work of the so-called radical empiricists-William James, Henri Bergson, John Dewey, and Gilles Deleuze, each treated in a dedicated chapter. What is "radical" about their work is to return empiricism from epistemology to the ontology and natural philosophy where it began. Empiricisms also sets empirical philosophy in conversation with Chinese tradition, considering technological, scientific, medical, and alchemical sources, as well as selected Confucian, Daoist, and Mohist classics. The work shows how philosophical reflection on experience and a profound experimental practice coexist in traditional China with no interaction or even awareness of each other. Empiricism is more multi-textured than philosophers tend to assume when we explain it to ourselves and to students. One purpose of Empiricisms is to recover the neglected context. A complementary purpose is to elucidate the value of experience and arrive at some idea of what is living and dead in philosophical empiricism"--

Book The Rhetoric of Western Thought

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Western Thought written by James L. Golden and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Official Discourse  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book Official Discourse Routledge Revivals written by Frank Burton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, Official Discourse is an unofficial report of theoretical investigations into a specific state of practice- the publication of reports of official inquiries into law, order and justice issues. The commissions, tribunals and committees of inquiry scrutinized in this book examine problems arising from wrongful imprisonment, police corruption, industrial picketing, and communal rioting and internment in Northern Ireland. Focusing on the reasons why government reports take the form they do, the authors venture into the areas of linguistics, psychoanalysis and Marxism. The book is an exercise in discourse analysis, an exercise in theoretical work that looks at the relationships between theory and literary production, and a critique of official conceptions of law, order and justice.