Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines (A Critical Inquiry Book) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226100839 ISBN 13: 9780226100838

Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals, 1994

Synopsis

Biologists, historians, lawyers, art historians, and literary critics all voice arguments in the critical dialogue about what constitutes evidence in research and scholarship. They examine not only the constitution and "blurring" of disciplinary boundaries, but also the configuration of the fact-evidence distinctions made in different disciplines and historical moments; the relative function of such concepts as "self-evidence," "experience," "test," "testimony," and "textuality" in varied academic discourses; and the way "rules of evidence" are themselves products of historical developments.

The essays and rejoinders are by Terry Castle, Lorraine Daston, Carlo Ginzburg, Ian Hacking, Mark Kelman, R. C. Lewontin, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Mary Poovey, Donald Preziosi, Simon Schaffer, Joan W. Scott, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith.

The critical responses are by Lauren Berlant, James Chandler, Jean Comaroff, Arnold I. Davidson, Harry D. harootunian, Elizabeth Helsinger, Thomas C. Holt, Francoise Meltzer, Robert J. Richards, Lawrence Rothfield, Joel Snyder, Cass R. Sunstein, and William Wimsatt.

About this title

About the Authors

James K. Chandler is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago.

Arnold I. Davidson is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he teaches principally in the Department of Jewish Thought and the Department of Romance Studies. He is also the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. 

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press Journals
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226100839
• ISBN 13: 9780226100838
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Chandler James, Davidson Arnold I., Harootunian Harry D.