The Public Understanding of Science—A Rhetorical Invention
The Public Understanding of Science—A Rhetorical Invention
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公众对科学的理解——修辞发明
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2002
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S. Locke
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这篇文章有助于发展公众理解科学或科学素养的修辞方法。有人认为，修辞承诺了一种替代赤字模型的方法，这种模型将人们视为有缺陷的科学家。相关修辞学文献中的一些紧张局势需要解决。这些问题的核心是将亚里士多德的修辞推理概念应用于科学，而不脱离柏拉图/亚里士多德对技术领域和公共领域的划分。前者为潜在的公众批评打开了科学的大门；后者结束了这一局面，有效地恢复了赤字模式。格罗斯的著作被用来尖锐地指出这一点。提出了一项决议，基于修辞作为社会构成的观点，并导致公众理解作为技巧的概念。在这里，比利格的修辞心理学为重新配置推理推理提供了基础，以一种将领域之间的划分解释为其本身修辞构成的方式。神创论被用来提供简短的说明。
This article contributes to the development of a rhetorical approach to the public understanding of science or science literacy. It is argued that rhetoric promises an alternative approach to deficit models that treat people as faulty scientists. Some tensions in the relevant rhetorical literature need resolution. These center on the application to science of an Aristotelian conception of rhetorical reasoning as enthymematic, without breaking from the Platonic/Aristotelian division between technical and public spheres. The former opens science to the potential of public critique; the latter closes this, effectively reinstating a deficit model. Gross’s writings are used to bring this point out sharply. A resolution is proposed, building on a view of rhetoric as socially constitutive and leading to a conception of public understanding as witcraft. Here, Billig’s rhetorical psychology provides the basis for reconfiguring the enthymeme in a manner that construes the division between spheres as itself rhetorically constituted. Creationism is used to provide brief illustration.