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

Chandler, James et al.

ISBN 10: 0226100839 / ISBN 13: 9780226100838

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1994

About this Item

518pp. Some pencil underlining and marginalia still a good reading/study copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines (A Critical Inquiry Book)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226100839
• ISBN 13: 9780226100838
• Binding: Paperback
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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 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.