Cutrufello, Gabriel J. (Author)
This dissertation explores how aesthetic claims in scientific arguments help construct scientific ethos through demonstrations of the rhetor's judgment. By examining the works of Josiah Willard Gibbs and Henry Rowland, two prominent nineteenth-century American scientists, through the lens of their formal rhetorical training as students in American universities, this dissertation investigates how aesthetic judgment is enacted in scientific writing and explores the rhetorical history of the terms "simplicity," "brevity," "imagination," and "taste" and their use in scientific arguments. The aesthetic judgment that both scientists demonstrate in their written work reinforced an understanding of scientific ethos. By placing nineteenth-century scientific writing in contact with the rhetorical theories of the time, this dissertation explores the history of aesthetic judgment in rhetoric and its influence on conceptualizations of the faculty of taste. The dissertation illuminates the connections between rhetorical training and the ability to perform appropriate judgment when creating a reliable scientific ethos in writing. Constructing a scientific ethos in writing became increasingly important and complicated during the time of great institutional change in scientific research, which occurred during the second half of the nineteenth century in America. Scientists constructed scientific ethos through demonstrations of aesthetic judgment in order to respond to the exigencies of both institutional pressures and disciplinary expectations.
...MoreDescription Surveys the works of Josiah Willard Gibbs and Henry Rowland, focusing on the rhetorical history of the terms “simplicity,” “brevity,” “imagination,” and “taste” and their use in scientific arguments. Cited in ProQuest Diss. & Thes. (2012). ProQuest Doc. ID 1095389043.
Thesis
Sheehan, Tanya;
(2005)
Doctor Photo: The Cultural Authority of Portrait Photography as Medicine inNineteenth-Century America
Book
Ploeger, Joanna S.;
(2009)
The Boundaries of the New Frontier: Rhetoric and Communication at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Book
Tietge, David J.;
(2008)
Rational Rhetoric: The Role of Science in Popular Discourse
Thesis
Dumin, Lauara Marie;
(2010)
Changes in the Use of the Passive Voice over Time: A Historical Look at the “American Journal of Botany” and the Changes in the Use of the Passive Voice from 1914--2008
Book
Kathryn Gin Lum;
(2024)
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
Article
Rupke, Nicolaas;
(2000)
Translation studies in the history of science: The example of Vestiges
Article
Daniel C.S. Wilson;
Mariona Coll Ardanuy;
Kaspar Beelen;
Barbara McGillivray;
Ruth Ahnert;
(2023)
The Living Machine: A Computational Approach to the Nineteenth-Century Language of Technology
Article
Lightman, Bernard;
(2002)
Huxley and Scientific Agnosticism: The Strange History of a Failed Rhetorical Strategy
Article
Craciun, Adriana;
(2012)
What Is an Explorer?
Article
Graber, Frédéric;
(2004)
Article ou mémoire? Une réflexion comparative sur l'écriture des textes scientifiques. Navier et l'écoulement des fluides (1822--1827)
Article
Alan Salter;
(2017)
"Where it is Farer Written": William Harvey's Praelectiones Anatomiae Universalis Considered as an English Text
Article
Miller, Sean;
(2011)
The Work of Imagining Subatomic Particles in Early Quantum Mechanics
Article
Pritzker, Sonya E.;
(2014)
Standardization and Its Discontents: Translation, Tension, and the Life of Language in Contemporary Chinese Medicine
Article
Kirby, Vicki;
(2003)
Enumerating Language: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics”
Book
Slater, Candace;
(2004)
In Search of the Rain Forest
Article
Olesen, Finn;
Markussen, Randi;
(2003)
Reconfigured Medication: Writing Medicine in a Sociotechnical Practice
Article
Cachón, Vladimir;
Barahona, Ana;
Ayala, Francisco J.;
(2008)
The Rhetorical Construction of Eldredge and Gould's Article on the Theory of Punctuated Equilibria in 1972
Article
Stefan Helmreich;
(2020)
Not a metaphor: A comment on Evelyn Fox Keller’s ‘cognitive functions of metaphor in the natural sciences’
Article
Richard Doyle;
(2020)
Jumping concepts and other transpositions: The Keller effect in/on discourses of living systems
Article
Willard McCarty;
(2020)
Editorial, Making Sense of Metaphor: Evelyn Fox Keller and Commentators on Language and Science
Be the first to comment!