Rhetorical Darwinism

Rhetorical Darwinism
Author: Thomas M. Lessl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion and science
ISBN: 9781602584037

Rhetorical Darwinism: Religion, Evolution, and the Scientific Identity received the Religious Communication Associatons Book of the Yearaward in 2012.

Literary Darwinism

Literary Darwinism
Author: Joseph Carroll
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415970143

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Literary Darwinism

Literary Darwinism
Author: Joseph Carroll
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415970136

In Literary Darwinism , Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and reviews give commentary on all the major contributors to the field, situate the field as a whole in relation to historical trends and contemporary schools, provide Darwinist readings of major literary texts such as Pride and Prejudice and Tess of the d'Urbervilles , and analyze literary Darwinism in relation to the affiliated fields of evolutionary metaphysics, cognitive rhetoric, and ecocriticism. Collecting the essays in a single volume will provide a central point of reference for scholars interested in consulting what the "foremost practicioner" ( New York Times ) of Darwinian literary criticism has to say about his field.

Subjects of the World

Subjects of the World
Author: Paul Sheldon Davies
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2014-06-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226137635

Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. Efforts to explicate the human mind are thwarted by our cultural biases and entrenched infirmities; our first-person experiences as practical agents convince us that we have capacities beyond the reach of scientific explanation. What we need to move forward in our understanding of human agency, Paul Sheldon Davies argues, is a reform in the way we study ourselves and a long overdue break with traditional humanist thinking. Davies locates a model for change in the rhetorical strategies employed by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species. Darwin worked hard to anticipate and diminish the anxieties and biases that his radically historical view of life was bound to provoke. Likewise, Davies draws from the history of science and contemporary psychology and neuroscience to build a framework for the study of human agency that identifies and diminishes outdated and limiting biases. The result is a heady, philosophically wide-ranging argument in favor of recognizing that humans are, like everything else, subjects of the natural world—an acknowledgement that may free us to see the world the way it actually is.

Darwinism, Design, and Public Education

Darwinism, Design, and Public Education
Author: John Angus Campbell
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 678
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Examines intelligent design as a science, a philosophy and a movement for educational reform. Central to all three aspects of ID is its claim that, if science education is to be other than state-sponsored propaganda, a distinction must be drawn between empirical science and materialist philosophy.

Controversy and Confrontation

Controversy and Confrontation
Author: Frans H. van Eemeren
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027218862

The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion. Their authors stem from two backgrounds. First, the controversy scholars Dascal, Marras, Euli, Regner, Ferreira, and Lessl discuss historical controversies in science, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective; Saim concentrates on a historical controversy; Fritz provides a historical perspective on controversies by analyzing communication principles. Second the argumentation scholars Johnson, van Laar, van Eemeren, Garssen and Meuffels address theoretical or empirical aspects of argumentative confrontation; Aakhus and Vasilyeva examine argumentative discourse from the perspective of conversation analysis; Jackson analyzes argumentative confrontation in a recent debate between scientists and politicians. Last but not least, two contributors, Kutrovátz and Zemplén, make an attempt to bridge the study of historical controversy and the study of argumentation.

Darwin's Pharmacy

Darwin's Pharmacy
Author: Richard M. Doyle
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0295803002

Are humans unwitting partners in evolution with psychedelic plants? Darwin’s Pharmacy shows they are by weaving the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs. Long suppressed as components of the human tool kit, psychedelic plants can be usefully modeled as “eloquence adjuncts” that intensify a crucial component of sexual selection in humans: discourse. Psychedelic plants seduce us to interact with them, building an ongoing interdependence: rhetoric as evolutionary mechanism. In doing so, they engage our awareness of the noosphere, or thinking stratum of the earth. The realization that the human organism is part of an interconnected ecosystem is an apprehension of immanence that could ultimately benefit the planet and its inhabitants. To explore the rhetoric of the psychedelic experience and its significance to evolution, Doyle takes his readers on an epic journey through the writings of William Burroughs and Kary Mullis, the work of ethnobotanists and anthropologists, and anonymous trip reports. The results offer surprising insights into evolutionary theory, the war on drugs, the internet, and the nature of human consciousness itself. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xof-t2cAob4

The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe

The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
Author: Thomas F. Glick
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 776
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1780937229

Beyond his pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day. The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe is a comprehensive survey of this enduring cultural impact throughout the continent. With chapters written by leading international scholars that explore how literary writers and popular culture responded to Darwin's thought, the book also includes an extensive timeline of his cultural reception in Europe and bibliographies of major translations in each country.

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image
Author: Stephen G. Alter
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-03-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780801872440

In the nineteenth century, philology—especially comparative philology—made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.