Titre et auteur:

Questions of evidence : proof, practice, and persuasion across the disciplines / edited by James Chandler, Arnold I. Davidson, and Harry Harootunian.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Description:

vii, 518 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Contains 12 essays originally published in three consecutive issues of Critical inquiry (Summer 1991 to Winter 1992), an essay by Mary Poovey, responses to the essays by various faculty members of the University of Chicago, and replies to the responses by the authors of the essays.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contagious folly : An adventure and its skeptics / Terry Castle -- For your eyes only : ghost citing / Françoise Meltzer -- Rejoinder to Françoise Meltzer / Terry Castle -- Self evidence / Simon Schaffer -- Jane Austen and the masturbating girl / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Evidences of masturbation / Lauren Berlant -- Against epistemology / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Belief and resistance : a symmetrical account / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Resistance to constructed belief / Robert Richards -- Circling around, knocking over, playing out / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Reasonable evidence of reasonableness / Mark Kelman -- On finding facts / Cass R. Sunstein -- Rejoinder to Cass R. Sunstein / Mark Kelman -- Question of art history / Donald Preziosi -- Response to Donald Preziosi / Joel Snyder -- Rejoinder to Joel Snyder / Donald Preziosi -- Marvelous facts and miraculous evidence in early modern Europe / Lorraine Daston -- Proving a history of evidence / James Chandler -- Historical epistemology / Lorraine Daston -- Checking the evidence / Carlo Ginzburg -- Carlo Ginzburg and the renewal of historiography / Arnold I. Davidson -- Rejoinder to Arnold I. Davidson / Carlo Ginzburg -- Atlantis and the nations / Pierre Vidal-Naquet -- Using and abusing fiction / Elizabeth Helsinger -- How to get beyond myth? / Pierre Vidal-Naquet -- Evidence of experience / Joan W. Scott -- Experience and the politics of intellectual inquiry / Thomas C. Holt -- Rejoinder to Thomas C. Holt / Joan W. Scott -- Figures of arithmetic, figures of speech : the discourse of statistics / Mary Poovey -- Response to Mary Poovey / Harry Harootunian -- Grand narrative or historical overdetermination? / Mary Poovey -- Two souls in one body / Ian Hacking -- Aristotle re-membered / Jean Comaroff -- Aristotle meets incest and innocence / Ian Hacking -- facts and the factitious in natural sciences / R.C. Lewontin -- Lewontin's evidence (that there isn't any) / William Wimsatt -- Rejoinder to William Wimsatt / R.C. Lewontin.

Résumé:

This anthology brings together thirteen major essays by leading scholars and researchers in multiple fields across the sciences and humanities. In addition, each essay is accompanied by a never-before-published critical response and a rejoinder by the author of the original essay.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0226100820
9780226100821
0226100839 (pbk.)
9780226100838 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Evidence.
Critical theory.
Interdisciplinary research.
Évidence.
Théorie critique.
Recherche interdisciplinaire.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
02.13 practice of science.
Evidenz
Gewissheit
Wissenschaft
Aufsatzsammlung
Interdisciplinair onderzoek.
Bewijstheorie.

Classification/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Vedettes secondaires:

Chandler, James, 1948-
Davidson, Arnold I. (Arnold Ira), 1955-
Harootunian, Harry D., 1929-

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 289021
Cote: BIB 231180
Statut: Disponible