Lynda Walsh

Scientists as Prophets

A Rhetorical Genealogy

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Produktbeschreibung

In Scientists as Prophets, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to seventeenth-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199857111
• ISBN-10: 0199857113
• Artikelnr.: 36899692

Autorenporträt

Lynda Walsh is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Chapter 1-Prelude: Scientists as Prophets and the Rhetoric of
Prophecy
* Chapter 2-The Delphic Oracle and Ancient Prophetic Ethos
* Chapter 3-The Natural Magician and the Prophet: Francis Bacon's
Ethical Alchemy
* Chapter 4-Confirming Signs: The Prophetic Ethos of the Early Royal
Society
* Chapter 5-Interlude: Competing Ethical Models and a Catch-22
* Chapter 6-J. Robert Oppenheimer: Cultic prophet
* Chapter 7-Rachel Carson, Kairotic Prophet
* Chapter 8-Media, Metaphor, and the "Oracles of Science "
* Chapter 9-Climate Change and the Technologies of Prophecy
* Chapter 10-Postlude: Problems and Solutions
* Appendix: Key Reception and Constitution Sources
* Notes
* Selected Bibliography