Questions of Evidence Proof, Practice, and Persuasion Across the Disciplines

Name: Questions of Evidence Proof, Practice, and Persuasion Across the Disciplines
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ISBN: 9780226100821

ISBN-10: 0226100820

ISBN-13: 9780226100821

Edition: 1994

Authors: James Chandler, Arnold I. Davidson, Harry D. Harootunian, James K. Chandler

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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…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/1/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

MICHEL FOUCAULT acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, USAnbsp;and Professor of the History of Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa, Italy. He is co-editor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie . GRAHAM BURCHELL is Translator, and has written essays on Michel Foucault. He is an Editor of The Foucault Effect .



Introduction


The Subject of Evidence Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its Skeptics



For Your Eyes Only: Ghost Citing



A Rejoinder to Franï¿½oise Meltzer



Self Evidence



Massaging the Evidence



Gestures in Question



Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl



Evidences of Masturbation



Against Epistemology



Sedgwick Objects and Objectivities Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account



Resistance to Constructed Belief



Circling Around, Knocking Over, Playing Out



Reasonable Evidence of Reasonableness



On Finding Facts



A Rejoinder to Cass R. Sunstein



The Question of Art History



A Response to Donald Preziosi



A Rejoinder to Joel Snyder



History and the Uses of Inquiry Marvelous Facts and Miraculous


Evidence in Early Modern Europe



Proving a History of Evidence



Historical Epistemology



Checking the Evidence: The Judge and the Historian



Carlo Ginzburg and the Renewal of Historiography



A Rejoinder to Arnold I. Davidson



Atlantis and the Nations



Using and Abusing Fiction



How to Get beyond Myth?



Experience and the Disciplines of Proof The Evidence of Experience



Experience and the Politics of Intellectual Inquiry



Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Discourse of Statistics



A Response to Mary Poovey



Grand Narrative or Historical Overdetermination?



Two Souls in One Body



Aristotle Re-membered



Facts and the Factitious in Natural Sciences



Evidence (That There Isn't Any)



A Rejoinder to William Wimsatt



Index