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Alan G. Gross
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    The Rhetoric of Science.Alan G. Gross - 1996
    Alan Gross applies the principles of rhetoric to the interpretation of classical and contemporary scientific texts to show how they persuade both author and audience. This invigorating consideration of the ways in which scientists--from Copernicus to Darwin to Newton to James Watson--establish authority and convince one another and us of the truth they describe may very well lead to a remodeling of our understanding of science and its place in society.
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  2. Chaim Perelman.Alan G. Gross - 2002 - Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. Edited by Ray D. Dearin.
    This accessible book examines the philosophical foundations of Chaim Perelman's rhetorical theory. In addition to offering a brief biography, it explores Perelman's deep philosophical commitments and his concern for the ways in which the details of actual texts realize those commitments. The authors show that Perelman still reigns supreme when it comes to the elucidation of actual texts. His is a microanalysis of arguments, one that is endlessly suggestive of ways of analyzing texts at the level of the word and (...)
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    Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science.Alan G. Gross & William M. Keith - 1997 - SUNY Press.
    Examines the nature of rhetorical theory and criticism, the rhetoric of science, and the impact of poststructuralism and postmodernism on contemporary accounts of rhetoric.
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    The marriage of pragmatics and rhetoric.Marcelo Dascal & Alan G. Gross - 1999 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 32 (2):107-130.
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    Do Disputes over Priority Tell Us Anything about Science?Alan G. Gross - 1998 - Science in Context 11 (2):161-179.
    The ArgumentConflicts between scientists over credit for their discoveries are conflicts, not merely in, but of science because discovery is not a historical event, but a retrospective social judgment. There is no objective moment of discovery; rather, discovery is established by means of a hermeneutics, a way of reading scientific articles. The priority conflict between Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally over the discovery of the brain hormone, TRF, serves as an example. The work of Robert Merton, Thomas Kuhn, Augustine Brannigan, (...)
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  6. Reinventing Certainty: The Significance of Ian Hacking's Realism.Alan G. Gross - 1990 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:421 - 431.
    This paper examines Ian Hacking's arguments in favor of entity realism. It shows that his examples from science do not support his realism. Furthermore, his proposed criterion of experimental use is neither sufficient nor necessary for conferring a privileged status on his preferred unobservables. Nonetheless his insight is genuine; it may be most profitably seen as part of a more general effort to create a space for a new form of scientific and philosophical certainty, one that does not require foundations.
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    Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric.Alan G. Gross & Arthur E. Walzer (eds.) - 2000 - Southern Illinois University Press.
    In this collection edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer, scholars in communication, rhetoric and composition, and philosophy seek to “reread” Aristotle’s Rhetoric from a purely rhetorical perspective.
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    Rhetoric as a technique and a mode of truth: Reflections on chaïm Perelman.Alan G. Gross - 2000 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 33 (4):319-335.
  9. Persuasion and peer review in science: Habermas's ideal speech situation applied.Alan G. Gross - 1990 - History of the Human Sciences 3 (2):195-209.
  10. Rhetorical Hermeneutics: Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science.Alan G. Gross, William M. Keith & Dudley D. Cahn - 1999 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 32 (3):282-285.
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    Review of van Eemeren & Houtlosser (2002): Dialectic and Rhetoric: The Warp and Woof of Argumentation Analysis. [REVIEW]Alan G. Gross - 2003 - Pragmatics and Cognition 11 (2):386-390.
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    Review of Hyland (1998): Hedging in Scientific Research Articles. [REVIEW]Alan G. Gross - 2000 - Pragmatics and Cognition 8 (2):446-450.
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    Douglas Walton, The Appeal to Pity: Argumentum ad Misericordiam.Alan G. Gross - 1999 - Pragmatics and Cognition 7 (1):223-226.
  14. A journal of knowledge, culture and policy.Judith Genova & Alan G. Gross - forthcoming - Social Epistemology.
     
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  15. Philosophy Versus Science: The Species Debate and the Practice of Taxonomy.Alan G. Gross - 1988 - PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988 (1):223-230.
    Although generally informed by an intimate knowledge of evolutionary biology and taxonomy, the controversy over the nature of species is clearly philosophical; it consists almost entirely of the clarification of old, and the invention of new arguments for or against calling the species category a class, The debate seems firmly divided between those, like Kitts and Bernier, who see homo sapiens as a class, and those, like Hull and Ghiselin, who see it as an individual. In the first case, particular (...)
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  16. Reinventing Certainty: The Significance of Ian Hacking’s Realism.Alan G. Gross - 1990 - PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (1):421-431.
    In a recent paper (1989), Ian Hacking has extended his discussion of entity realism, a discussion begun six years ago in the final chapter of Representing and Intervening (1983). This extension allows us to examine for the first time the whole of one impressive attempt to rescue scientific realism from the ever more subtle skepticism of post-positivist thinking (Laudan 1984; Fine 1986). Hacking’s approach complements that of Nancy Cartwright. Like Cartwright, he implies that a full-blown realism about scientific theories and (...)
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  17. Shaping written knowledge: The genre and activity of the experimental article in science: Charles Bazerman,(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988). Paper $17.50. [REVIEW]Alan G. Gross - 1990 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 21 (2):341-349.
     
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  18. The scientific sublime: popular science unravels the mysteries of the universe.Alan G. Gross - 2018 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    The sublime evokes our awe, our terror, and our wonder. Applied first in ancient Greece to the heights of literary expression, in the 18th-century the sublime was extended to nature and to the sciences, enterprises that viewed the natural world as a manifestation of God's goodness, power, and wisdom. In The Scientific Sublime, Alan Gross reveals the modern-day sublime in popular science. He shows how the great popular scientists of our time--Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, (...)
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  19. With Commentary.Alan G. Gross - 1988 - Biology and Philosophy 3 (2):185.
     
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  20. 1. Front Matter Front Matter.Dave Tell, Alan G. Gross, Chris Kaposy, Catherine Zuckert & C. Jan Swearingen - 2010 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 43 (2).
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    Rhetoric, narrative, and the lifeworld: The construction of collective identity.Alan G. Gross - 2010 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 43 (2):pp. 118-138.
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    Philosophy versus Science: The Species Debate and the Practice of Taxonomy.Alan G. Gross - 1988 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988:223 - 230.
    A reading of a sample of taxonomical papers leads to the conclusion that new species identification is both taxonomically plausible and philosophically incoherent. As a result, taxonomy becomes a science that apparently violates a necessary condition of its rationality. It is this apparent violation that is the focus of the philosophical debate, a debate whose goal for taxonomy is theoretical coherence at a global level. In this paper, I assess the appropriateness of this goal.
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    Is a science of language possible? The Derrida‐Searle debate.Alan G. Gross - 1994 - Social Epistemology 8 (4):345 – 359.
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    Rhetoric, Narrative, and the Lifeworld: The Construction of Collective Identity.Alan G. Gross - 2010 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 43 (2):118-138.
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    The Challenger Disaster And The Revival Of Rhetoric In Organizational Life.Alan G. Gross & Arthur Walzer - 1997 - Argumentation 11 (1):85-93.
    Explanations of the cause of the Challenger disaster by the Presidential Commission and by communication scholars are flawed. These explanations are characterized by a common tendency to emphasize the technical and procedural aspects of organizational life at the expense of the cognitive and ethical. Rightly construed, the Challenger disaster illustrates both the need for a revived art of rhetoric and the importance of putting in place the political and social conditions that make this art efficacious in furthering cognitive understanding and (...)
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    Book Review: Landau, Iddo. (2006). Is Philosophy Androcentric? University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State Press. [REVIEW]Alan G. Gross - 2008 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 38 (3):400-404.
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    The conceptual unity of Aristotle's rhetoric.Alan G. Gross & Marcelo Dascal - 2001 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 34 (4):275-291.
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    Why all scientists write in English: Michael F. Gordin: Scientific Babel: How science was done before and after global English. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015, 415pp, $30.00 HB.Alan G. Gross - 2015 - Metascience 25 (1):125-129.
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    A Model for the Division of Semiotic Labor in Scientific Argument: The Interaction of Words and Images.Alan G. Gross - 2011 - Science in Context 24 (4):517-544.
    ArgumentA growing cross-disciplinary literature has acknowledged the importance of verbal-visual interaction in the creation and communication of scientific texts. I contend that the proper understanding of these texts must flow from a hermeneutic model that takes verbal-visual interaction seriously, one that is firmly grounded in cognitive constraints and affordances. The model I propose has two modules, one for perception, derived from Gestalt psychology, the other for cognition, derived from Peirce's semiotics. I apply this model to an important but largely neglected (...)
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    On not taking sides.Alan G. Gross - 1994 - Social Epistemology 8 (4):373 – 381.
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    Systematically Distorted Communication: An Impediment to Social and Political Change.Alan G. Gross - 2010 - Informal Logic 30 (4):335-360.
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    Adaptation in evolutionary epistemology: Clarifying Hull's model. [REVIEW]Alan G. Gross - 1988 - Biology and Philosophy 3 (2):185-186.
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    The Verbal and the Visual in Science: A Heideggerian Perspective.Alan G. Gross - 2006 - Science in Context 19 (4):443-474.
    ArgumentHeidegger's philosophy of science is notable for the prominence it gives to visuals and visualization. This is because for Heidegger, truth – including scientific truth – is the consequence of unconcealment, the lifting of a veil. But as scientific truth is a special kind, its visualization is also special: scientific truth reveals itself to us as, in Heidegger's words, “a calculable nexus of forces.” This nexus unconceals itself largely by means of instrumentation: it is this process of revelation that turns (...)
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    The science wars and the ethics of book reviewing.Alan G. Gross - 2000 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30 (3):445-450.
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    Shaping written knowledge: The genre and activity of the experimental article in science.Alan G. Gross - 1990 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 21 (2):341-349.