7. Arguing over Incommensurable Values: The Case of Machiavelli

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART ONE. Rhetorics of Science
6. 1. Bio-Rhetorics: Moralizing the Life Sciences 35
7. 2. Scientific Discovery and Rhetorical Invention: The Path to Darwin's Origin 58
8. 3. The Origin of Species: Evolutionary Taxonomy as an Example of the Rhetoric of Science 91
9. 4. Psychoanalysis: Science or Rhetoric? 116
10. 5. Discursive Constraints on the Acceptance and Rejection of Knowledge Claims: The Conversation about Conversation 145
11. 6. The Rhetoric of Decision Science, or Herbert A. Simon Says 162
12. PART TW. The Politics of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Politics
13. 7. Arguing over Incommensurable Values: The Case of Machiavelli 187
14. 8. Narrative Figures and Subtle Persuasions: The Rhetoric of the MOVE Report 208
15. 9. The Rhetoric of the Commons: Forum Discourse in Politics and Society 238
16. 10. Political Foundations for the Rhetoric of Inquiry 258
17. PART THREE. Philosophical Probes and Reflections
18. 11. The Checkmate of Rhetoric (But Can Our Reasons Become Causes?) 293
19. 12. Reconciling Realism and Relativism 308
20. 13. Symbolic Realism and the Dualism of the Human Sciences: A Rhetorical Reformulation of the Debate between Positivism and Romanticism 320
21. 14. Rhetoric and Its Double: Reflections on the Rhetorical Turn in the Human Sciences 341
22. CONTRIBUTORS 367
23. AUTHOR INDEX 369
24. SUBJECT INDEX 376