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Rhetoric and Contingency

Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Blumenberg

By: DS Mayfield

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Rhetoric and Contingency

Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Blumenberg

By: DS Mayfield

Human life is susceptible of changing suddenly, of shifting inadvertently, of appearing differently, of varying unpredictably, of being altered deliberately, of advancing fortuitously, of commencing or ending accidentally, of a certain malleability. In theory, any human being is potentially capacitated to conceive of—and convey—the chance, view, or fact that matters may be otherwise, or not at all; with respect to other lifeforms, this might be said animal’s distinctive characteristic. This state of play is both an everyday phenomenon, and an indispensable prerequisite for exceptional innovations in culture and science: contingency is the condition of possibility for any of the arts—be they dominantly concerned with thinking, crafting, or enacting. While their scope and method may differ, the (f)act of reckoning with—and taking advantage of—contingency renders rhetoricians and philosophers associates after all. In this regard, Aristotle and Blumenberg will be exemplary, hence provide the framework. Between these diachronic bridgeheads, close readings applying the nexus of rhetoric and contingency to a selection of (Early) Modern texts and authors are intercalated—among them La Celestina, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Wilde, Fontane.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110701774

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9783110701777

The Ballad of Parker

By: D.S Pais

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The Ballad of Parker

By: D.S Pais

A plane is hijacked. The hijacker jumps out of the plane using a civilian parachute. There are no casualties, and all passengers and crew members are safe. The hijacker disappears with the ransom money and is never found. Will they ever find him?

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Ukiyoto Publishing

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9356452180

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9789356452183

From Scarcity to Visibility

Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers

By: National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Women in Science and Engineering,Panel for the Study of Gender Differences in the Career Outcomes of Science and Engineering Ph.D.s

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Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers

Although women have made important inroads in science and engineering since the early 1970s, their progress in these fields has stalled over the past several years. This study looks at women in science and engineering careers in the 1970s and 1980s, documenting differences in career outcomes between men and women and between women of different races and ethnic backgrounds. The panel presents what is known about the following questions and explores their policy implications: In what sectors are female Ph.D.s employed? What salary disparities exist between men and women in these fields? How is marital status associated with career attainment? Does it help a career to have a postdoctoral appointment? How well are female scientists and engineers represented in management? Within the broader context of education and the labor market, the book provides detailed comparisons between men and women Ph.D.s in a number of measures: financial support for education, academic rank achieved, salary, and others. The study covers engineering; the mathematical, physical, life, and social and behavioral sciences; medical school faculty; and recipients of National Institutes of Health grants. Findings and recommendations in this volume will be of interest to practitioners, faculty, and students in science and engineering as well as education administrators, employers, and researchers in these fields.

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National Academies Press

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0309175275

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9780309175272

In Defense of Informal Logic

By: D.S. Levi

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In Defense of Informal Logic

By: D.S. Levi

My impulse when I decided to collect into a single volume the essays on topics in logical theory and related subjects that I have written in the last fifteen years was to borrow from the title of a work by Sextus Empiricus, and call my collection "Against the Logicians." Although the essays address a variety of problems that interest me, the thread that runs through them is a scepticism about how logicians see things. So, the title appealed to me. However, I had second thoughts and chose instead a title of one of my own essays, "In Defense of Informal Logic", which emphasizes my support for other approaches. Although my criticisms of logical theory are designed to cut deeply, I do not want to be unresponsive to the needs that it is supposed to satisfy. However, my position that we have adequate resources for critically analyzing a particular argument and 00 not need a theory of argumentation, will not completely satisfy those who think that there is a need for it. So, I want them to know that I am taking their concerns seriously.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401718504

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Rhetoric and Contingency

Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Blumenberg

By: DS Mayfield

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Aristotle, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Blumenberg

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