Questions of evidence : Proof, practice and persuasion across the disciplines

By:

Chandler James

Contributor(s):

Davidson Arnold I Harootunian Harry

Publication details: Chicago The University Of Chicago Press 1991Description: 518pISBN:

9780226100838

Subject(s):

1. Law Language 2. Language Power - Englsh

DDC classification:

121.65 CHA CHA

Contents:

Contents Introduction The Subject of Evidence Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its Skeptics by Terry Castle For Your Eyes Only: Ghost Citing by Françoise Meltzer A Rejoinder to Françoise Meltzer by Terry Castle Self Evidence by Simon Schaffer Massaging the Evidence by Lawrence Rothfield Gestures in Question by Simon Schaffer Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Evidences of Masturbation by Lauren Berlant Against Epistemology by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Objects and Objectivities Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account by Barbar Herrnstein Smith Resistance to Constructed Belief by Robert Richards Circling Around, Knocking Over, Playing Out by Barbara Herrnstein Smith Reasonable Evidence of Reasonableness by Mark Kelman On Finding Facts by Cass R. Sunstein A Rejoinder to Cass R. Sunstein by Mark Kelman The Question of Art History by Donald Preziosi A Response to Donald Preziosi by Joel Snyder A Rejoinder to Joel Snyder by Donald Preziosi History and the Uses of Inquiry Marvelous Facts and Miraculous Evidence in Early Modern Europe by Lorraine Daston Proving a History of Evidence by James Chandler Historical Epistemology by Lorraine Daston Checking the Evidence: The Judge and the Historian by Carlo Ginzburg Carlo Ginzburg and the Renewal of Historiography by Arnold I. Davidson A Rejoinder to Arnold I. Davidson by Carlo Ginzburg Atlantis and the Nations by Pierre Vidal-Naquet Using and Abusing Fiction by Elizabeth Helsinger How to Get beyond Myth? by Pierre Vidal-Naquet Experience and the Disciplines of Proof The Evidence of Experience by Joan W. Scott Experience and the Politics of Intellectual Inquiry by Thomas C. Holt Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Discourse of Statistics by Mary Poovey A Response to Mary Poovey by Harry Harootunian Grand Narrative or Historical Overdetermination? by Mary Poovey Two Souls in One Body by Ian Hacking Aristotle Re-membered by Jean Comaroff Aristotle Meets Incest—and Innocence by Ian Hacking Facts and the Factitious in Natural Sciences by R. C. Lewontin Lewontin’s Evidence (That There Isn’t Any) by William Wimsatt A Rejoinder to William Wimsatt by R. C. Lewontin Index

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Contents
Introduction
The Subject of Evidence
Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its Skeptics by Terry Castle
For Your Eyes Only: Ghost Citing by Françoise Meltzer
A Rejoinder to Françoise Meltzer by Terry Castle
Self Evidence by Simon Schaffer
Massaging the Evidence by Lawrence Rothfield
Gestures in Question by Simon Schaffer
Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Evidences of Masturbation by Lauren Berlant
Against Epistemology by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Objects and Objectivities
Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account by Barbar Herrnstein Smith
Resistance to Constructed Belief by Robert Richards
Circling Around, Knocking Over, Playing Out by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Reasonable Evidence of Reasonableness by Mark Kelman
On Finding Facts by Cass R. Sunstein
A Rejoinder to Cass R. Sunstein by Mark Kelman
The Question of Art History by Donald Preziosi
A Response to Donald Preziosi by Joel Snyder
A Rejoinder to Joel Snyder by Donald Preziosi
History and the Uses of Inquiry
Marvelous Facts and Miraculous Evidence in Early Modern Europe by Lorraine Daston
Proving a History of Evidence by James Chandler
Historical Epistemology by Lorraine Daston
Checking the Evidence: The Judge and the Historian by Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg and the Renewal of Historiography by Arnold I. Davidson
A Rejoinder to Arnold I. Davidson by Carlo Ginzburg
Atlantis and the Nations by Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Using and Abusing Fiction by Elizabeth Helsinger
How to Get beyond Myth? by Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Experience and the Disciplines of Proof
The Evidence of Experience by Joan W. Scott
Experience and the Politics of Intellectual Inquiry by Thomas C. Holt
Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Discourse of Statistics by Mary Poovey
A Response to Mary Poovey by Harry Harootunian
Grand Narrative or Historical Overdetermination? by Mary Poovey
Two Souls in One Body by Ian Hacking
Aristotle Re-membered by Jean Comaroff
Aristotle Meets Incest—and Innocence by Ian Hacking
Facts and the Factitious in Natural Sciences by R. C. Lewontin
Lewontin’s Evidence (That There Isn’t Any) by William Wimsatt
A Rejoinder to William Wimsatt by R. C. Lewontin
Index

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