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- Extending discretion in high school science curricula.Gordon R.Cavana &William H. Leonard -2006 -Science Education 69 (5):593-603.Export citation
Bookmark - Did Habermas Cede Nature to the Positivists?Gordon R. Mitchell -2003 -Philosophy and Rhetoric 36 (1):1-21.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Rhetoric 36.1 (2003) 1-21 [Access article in PDF] Did Habermas Cede Nature to the Positivists?Gordon R. Mitchell Jürgen Habermas's "colonization of the lifeworld" thesis (1987, 332-73) posits that many of society's pathologies are due to the tendency of institutions to convert social issues that ought to be sorted out by a debating citizenry into technical problems ripe for resolution by expert bureaucracies, thus pre-empting important (...) public discussion. Habermas has attempted to lay bare the pernicious effects of this colonization process in his analysis of public opinion polling, welfare policy, education, German reunification, immigration, and other social issues (see Habermas 1997, 1994, and 1970; Holub 1992). In each of these contexts, Habermas has publicly challenged the encroachment of scientistic modes of decision-making into spheres where joint communicative action by deliberating citizens would yield more appropriate and legitimate judgments. This critical impulse is also evident in Habermas's methodological reflections on the proper role of academic scholarship, where he has argued vigorously against attempts to graft "objectivating" methods of natural scientific inquiry onto research projects in the social sciences (1971, 304-17).From all of this, one might gather that Habermas's commitment to rolling back the influence of technical forms of reasoning is connected to some intrinsic quarrel he has with the natural sciences. Yet such a sweeping generalization is hard to sustain in light of the fact that Habermas does not oppose technical reasoning per se; he recognizes that the daunting complexity of social life in late capitalism requiresthat certain "steering" tasks be delegated to systems that utilize largely instrumental logics to co-ordinate action. Likewise, he acknowledges that the disciplines of the natural sciences necessarily play important supporting roles in such steering projects.One normative presupposition of Habermas's colonization thesis is that there exists some proper boundary demarcating where the sphere of technical reasoning ends and the realm of communicative rationality begins. [End Page 1] On one side of this boundary, Habermas has provided many details on what he sees as the essential qualities of a properly functioning "public sphere," where "new social movements" continuously reweave the threads of communicative fabric holding society together (1996, 359-87), and where "historico-hermeneutic" academic study reflects on public life, sluicing insight back into the capillaries of democratic deliberations (1987, 374-403).What lies on the other side of the boundary is murkier. The proper role of natural scientific investigation has received relatively scant attention in Habermas's critical theory of society, and this has led to some confusion regarding his account of the natural sciences, as well as debate over whether this account has political purchase. One would think that sympathetic commentators, such as Helen Longino (who bases much of her own coherence theory of scientific truth on Habermas), would have reassuring things to say on this point. Yet her lukewarm assessment that, "in trying to clear a space for an autonomous social and critical theory, [Habermas] has ceded nature to the positivists" (1990, 202), raises questions about the flexibility and scope of Habermas's theory of communicative action as a basis for critique of scientific practice.One way to test Habermas's account of the natural sciences on this count is to put his views in conversation with science studies commentators who share a similar commitment to the idea that dialogue and argumentation are constitutive elements of scientific practice. Such an approach recasts the "ceding to positivism" question into a moment of controversy over the role of dialogue, not only as an essential motor driving the scientific enterprise, but also as a vehicle for democratic decision-making on issues related to the purpose and direction of scientific inquiry in society.Part one of this essay locates discursive norms embedded pragmatically in the notion of scientific objectivity. By bringing a modified version of Habermas's theory of communicative action into conversation with other approaches to science studies that foreground intersubjective dialogue as the key motor driving the scientific enterprise, I develop a foundation for robust criticism of systematically distorted scientific communication. Specific strategies of... (shrink)
- Deliberative Stakeholder Engagement in Person-centered Health Research.Gordon R. Mitchell,E. Johanna Hartelius,David McCoy &Kathleen M. McTigue -2022 -Social Epistemology 36 (1):21-42.Robust stakeholder engagement in health research requires broad communicative integration, not only of patients but also other stakeholders such as health system leaders, clinicians, and researcher...
- Human Learning and Memory: Selected Readings.Gordon R. Cross &N. J. Slamecka -1968 -British Journal of Educational Studies 16 (1):100.
- Research in Education. Number 1, May 1969.Gordon R. Cross -1970 -British Journal of Educational Studies 18 (3):344.
- Schools for Young Offenders.Gordon R. Cross &Gordon Rose -1968 -British Journal of Educational Studies 16 (1):78.
- Social PsychologyTeacher, Pupil, and Task.Gordon R. Cross,W. J. H. Sprott &O. A. Oeser -1967 -British Journal of Educational Studies 15 (2):230.
- Adventures in faith and works.Gordon R. Clapp -1947 -Ethics 58 (1):57-62.
- Jesus’s Uses of Language and Their Contemporary Significance.Gordon R. Lewis -2006 -Philosophia Christi 8 (2):401-419.
- Material significance in contemporary art.R.Gordon -2013 -Artmatters: International Journal for Technical Art History 5:1-10.Contemporary artists are faced with a cacophony of choice when it comes to materials. With this expanded practice, where everything and anything could be considered a material, come questions for those charged with the care of these works: how do we discern the artwork’s materials and their role in the identity of the work? By examining the use of ‘people’ and ‘context’ as materials by the artists Aileen Campbell, Justin Carter and Toby Paterson, this paper assesses the function of these (...) materials in the work, introducing the terms ‘material structure’ and ‘material as signifier’ to aid the investigation. This process will deepen our understanding of the complex identities of such contemporary artworks, informing their successful stewarding into the future. (shrink)No categories
- Cognitive Intuition of Singulars Revisited.Gordon R. Payne -1981 -Franciscan Studies 41 (1):346-384.
- The development "Problem" of legal pluralism : an analysis and steps towards solutions.Gordon R. Woodman -2012 - In Brian Z. Tamanaha, Caroline Sage & Michael J. V. Woolcock,Legal pluralism and development: scholars and practitioners in dialogue. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 129.
- The us obesity “epidemic”: Metaphor, method, or madness?Gordon R. Mitchell &Kathleen M. McTigue -2007 -Social Epistemology 21 (4):391 – 423.In 2000, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson mobilized the US public health infrastructure to deal with escalating trends of excess body weight. A cornerstone of this effort was a report entitled The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity. The report stimulated a great deal of public discussion by utilizing the distinctive public health terminology of an epidemic to describe the growing prevalence of obesity in the US population. We suggest (...) that the ensuing controversy was fueled in part by the report's ambiguous usage of the evocative term “epidemic.” In some passages, the report seems to use “epidemic” in a literal sense, suggesting that rising prevalence of excess body weight should be defined technically as a disease outbreak. Other passages of the report present the same key term metaphorically, leaving readers with the impression that the epidemic language is invoked primarily for rhetorical effect. Here, we explore dynamics and implications of both interpretations. This analysis sheds light on the ongoing public argument about the appropriate societal response to steadily increasing body sizes in the US population; likewise, it capitalizes on the accumulated knowledge that the field of public health has garnered from combating diverse historic epidemics. Our interdisciplinary approach deploys critical tools from the fields of rhetoric, sociology and epidemiology. In particular, we draw from metaphor theory and public address scholarship to elucidate how the Call to Action frames public deliberation on obesity. We turn to the applied public health literature to develop a reading of the report that suggests a novel approach to the problem—application of the Epidemic Investigation protocol to streamline the public health response and reframe the public argument about obesity. (shrink)
- Metacognitive Control of Categorial Neurobehavioral Decision Systems.Gordon R. Foxall -2016 -Frontiers in Psychology 7.
- Translation Through Argumentation in Medical Research and Physician-Citizenship.Gordon R. Mitchell &Kathleen M. McTigue -2012 -Journal of Medical Humanities 33 (2):83-107.While many "benchtop-to-bedside" research pathways have been developed in "Type I" translational medicine, vehicles to facilitate "Type II" and "Type III" translation that convert scientific data into clinical and community interventions designed to improve the health of human populations remain elusive. Further, while a high percentage of physicians endorse the principle of citizen leadership, many have difficulty practicing it. This discrepancy has been attributed, in part, to lack of training and preparation for public advocacy, time limitation, and institutional resistance. As (...) translational medicine and physician-citizenship implicate social, political, economic and cultural factors, both enterprises require "integrative" research strategies that blend insights from multiple fields of study, as well as rhetorical acumen in adapting messages to reach multiple audiences. This article considers how argumentation theory's epistemological flexibility, audience attentiveness, and heuristic qualities, combined with concepts from classical rhetoric, such as rhetorical invention, the synecdoche, and ethos, yield tools to facilitate translational medicine and enable physician-citizenship. (shrink)
- Species, rules and meaning: The politics of language and the ends of definitions in 19th century natural history.Gordon R. McOuat -1996 -Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 27 (4):473-519.
- The marketing firm and consumer choice: implications of bilateral contingency for levels of analysis in organizational neuroscience.Gordon R. Foxall -2014 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8:97974.The emergence of a conception of the marketing firm (Foxall, 1999a) conceived within behavioral psychology and based on a corresponding model of consumer choice, (Foxall, 1990/2004) permits an assessment of the levels of behavioral and organizational analysis amenable to neuroscientific examination. This paper explores the ways in which the bilateral contingencies that link the marketing firm with its consumerate allow appropriate levels of organizational neuroscientific analysis to be specified. Having described the concept of the marketing firm and the model of (...) consumer behavior on which it is based, the paper analyzes bilateral contingencies at the levels of (i) market exchange, (ii) emotional reward, and (iii) neuroeconomics. Market exchange emerges as a level of analysis that lends itself predominantly to the explanation of firm—consumerate interactions in terms of the super-personal level of reinforcing and punishing contingencies: the marketing firm can be treated as a contextual or operant system in its own right. However, the emotional reward and neuroeconomic levels of analysis should be confined to the personal level of analysis represented by individual managers on the one hand and individual consumers on the other. This also entails a level of abstraction but it is one that can be satisfactorily handled in terms of the concept of bilateral contingency. (shrink)
- Higher-Order Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentation.Gordon R. Mitchell -2010 -Argumentation 24 (3):319-335.In a critical discussion, interlocutors can strategically maneuver by shading their expressed degree of standpoint commitment for rhetorical effect. When is such strategic shading reasonable, and when does it cross the line and risk fallacious derailment of the discussion? Analysis of President George W. Bush’s 2002–2003 prewar commentary on Iraq provides an occasion to explore this question and revisit Douglas Ehninger’s distinction between argumentation as coercive correction and argumentation as a person-risking enterprise. Points of overlap between Ehninger’s account and pragma-dialectical (...) argumentation theory suggest avenues for harmonization of rhetorical and dialectical perspectives on argumentation. Out of this conceptual convergence comes theoretical resources for understanding strategic maneuvering, by accounting for ways that discussants exploit gaps between their externalized and actual discussion attitude. As such higher-order strategic maneuvering played a major role in the 2003 Iraq prewar discourse failure, perspicacious understanding of this particular argumentative maneuver carries practical, as well as theoretical import. (shrink)
- Personality.R. G.Gordon -1999 - Routledge.First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.No categories
- The Neurotic Personality.R. G.Gordon -1928 -Humana Mente 3 (10):255-256.Export citation Bookmark
- The contextual stance.Gordon R. Foxall -1999 -Philosophical Psychology 12 (1):25-46.The contention that cognitive psychology and radical behaviorism yield equivalent accounts of decision making and problem solving is examined by contrasting a framework of cognitive interpretation, Dennett's intentional stance, with a corresponding interpretive stance derived from contextualism. The insistence of radical behaviorists that private events such as thoughts and feelings belong in a science of human behavior is indicted in view of their failure to provide a credible interpretation of complex human behavior. Dennett's interpretation of intentional systems is an exemplar (...) of the interpretive stance radical behaviorism requires; a corresponding interpretive position can be based initially on a radical behaviorist view of human behavior and its determinants. This "contextual stance" is ontologically and methodologically distinct from the intentional stance over the range of explanations for which scientific psychology, cognitive or behaviorist, is responsible. (shrink)
- Optional published refereeing.R. A.Gordon -1982 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 (2):213-214.
- Abnormal Psychology. By H. L. Hollingworth . (London: Methuen & Co. 1931. Pp. xii + 556. Price 15s.).R. G.Gordon -1933 -Philosophy 8 (29):119-.
- Fact, friction, and political conviction in science policy controversies.Gordon R. Mitchell &Marcus Paroske -2000 -Social Epistemology 14 (2-3):89-107.
- Editors? introduction.Gordon R. Mitchell &Timothy M. O'Donnell -2000 -Social Epistemology 14 (2-3):79-87.
- Contributions to Analytical Psychology. By C. G. Jung Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes. International Library of Psychology, Philosophy, and Scientific Method. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. 1928. Pp. xi + 410. Price 18s.). [REVIEW]R. G.Gordon -1929 -Philosophy 4 (14):281.No categories
- The Psychology of the Infant. By Siegfried Bernfeld. Translated by Rosetta Hurwitz. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. 1929. Pp. xi + 309. Price 15s. [REVIEW]R. G.Gordon -1930 -Philosophy 5 (17):146-.No categories
- Emotion.Louis C. Charland &R. M.Gordon -2005 - In Donald Borchert,Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Vol. 2) (2nd Edition). pp. 197-203.
- Change in the hall coefficient during ordering of Cu3Au.A. R. von Neida &R. B.Gordon -1962 -Philosophical Magazine 7 (79):1129-1143.No categories
- Beyond the Marketing Philosophy: Context and Intention in the Explanation of Consumer Choice.Gordon R. Foxall -2004 -Philosophy of Management 4 (1):67-85.The intentional stance1 and the contextual stance2 are inextricably interdependent in the production of a comprehensive explanation and means of predicting complex human behaviour. This is illustrated in the context of the expectation of attitudinal-behavioural consistency which has long lain at the heart of both marketing science and social psychology. In practice, cognitively-inclined attitude theory and research leans on the contextual stance in order to formulate the heuristic overlay of mental interpretation in which it primarily presents its predictive and explicative (...) accounts of behaviour. Behaviour analysis has traditionally eschewed this approach, maintaining that it can generate an exclusively extensional account of complex behaviour. It is argued that while the cognitive and behaviour analytic approaches produce equally effective predictions of behaviour, an adequate explanation of human activity requires the addition of the kind of interpretive overlay advocated by Dennett3 in which the relationship between extensional science and intensionalistic interpretation is clarified. The resulting framework of analysis, intentional behaviorism4 provides an inclusive paradigm. (shrink)
- The Psychology of Classroom Learning.Gordon R. Cross &John M. Stephens -1965 -British Journal of Educational Studies 14 (1):151.
- Higher Education for Business.R. A.Gordon &J. E. Howell -1960 -British Journal of Educational Studies 9 (1):91-91.
- Whose Shoe Fits Best? Dubious Physics and Power Politics in the TMD Footprint Controversy.Gordon R. Mitchell -2000 -Science, Technology, and Human Values 25 (1):52-86.Apparent design breakthroughs in short-range missile defense systems such as Theater High-Altitude Air Defense have prompted questions about the legality of such systems under the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. Prominent physicists have used computer “footprint” methodology to prove that if engineered to specifications, THAAD might exceed ABM Treaty performance limits banning highly effective missile defense systems. In response, missile defense officials commissioned Sparta, Inc. to conduct secret research casting doubt on the validity of such findings. The substantial diplomatic issues at (...) stake and the interesting rhetorical dynamics involved in this dispute warrant close scholarly analysis. Attention to the iterative relationship between the interpenetrating spheres of public argument and scientific practice in this case yields novel insight about the processes in which technical knowledge of defense systems is forged and raises fresh issues for the “closure project” in science and technology controversy studies. (shrink)No categories
- Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum . 1. Processions. Sacrifices. Libations. Fumigations. Dedications. [REVIEW]R. L.Gordon -2007 -The Classical Review 57 (2):514-517.
- Personality.R. G.Gordon -1926 -Humana Mente 1 (3):389-390.First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
- Mythical Metamorphosis. [REVIEW]R. L.Gordon -1991 -The Classical Review 41 (2):349-351.
- Secret Ways of the Mind. By W. M. Kranefeldt. Introduction by C. G. Jung. Translated from the German by Ralph M. Eaton. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. 1934. Pp. xl + 188. Price 6s.). [REVIEW]R. G.Gordon -1934 -Philosophy 9 (36):490.No categories
- Defining the Subject of Consent in DNA Research.Gordon R. Mitchell -2001 -Journal of Medical Humanities 22 (1):41-53.The advent of population-specific genomic research has prompted calls for invention of informed consent protocols that would treat entire social groups as research subjects as well as endow such groups with authority as agents of consent. Critics of such an unconventional ethical norm of group consent fear the rhetorical effects of approaching social groups with offers to participate in dialogues about informed consent. Addressing a specific population as the collective subject of genomic research, on this logic, adds currency to the (...) potentially dangerous public opinion that such a group is bound by genetic ties. The paper considers the problem of group and individual identity within the rhetorical dynamics of the discourse and politics of consent. (shrink)
- The ethical consequences of modafinil use.Molly Cahill &R. Balice-Gordon -2005 -Penn Bioethics Journal 1 (1).Export citation Bookmark
- Effects of space and time on selection in partial report.P. Dixon,V. Dilollo,A. Leung &R.Gordon -1992 -Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 30 (6):461-462.Export citation Bookmark
- Short notice.A. C. F. Beales,Robert M. Povey,Gordon R. Cross,Kenneth Garside,Roger R. Straughan,R. S. Peters,W. B. Inglis,Helen Coppen,David Johnston,P. H. Taylor,M. F. Cleugh,Charles Gittins,J. V. Muir &Evelyn E. Cowie -1970 -British Journal of Educational Studies 18 (3):276-355.
- Growth factors as survival factors: Regulation of apoptosis.Mary K. L. Collins,Gordon R. Perkins,Gemma Rodriguez-Tarduchy,Maria Angela Nieto &Abelardo López-Rivas -1994 -Bioessays 16 (2):133-138.Apoptosis is now widely recognized as a common form of cell death and represents a mechanism of cell clearance in many physiological situations where deletion of cells is required. Peptide growth factors, initially characterised as stimulators of cell proliferation, have now been shown to inhibit death in many cell types. Deprivation of growth factors leads to the induction of apoptosis, i.e. condensation of chromatin and degradation in oligonucleosomesized fragments, formation of plasma and nuclear membrane blebs and cell fragmentation into apoptotic (...) bodies which can be taken up by neighbouring cells. Here we discuss the mechanism(;s) by which growth factors may inhibit apoptosis. (shrink)
- Thanks to our guest reviewers.J. Alegria,V. Girotto,S. Nicholson,N. Alvarado,R.Gordon,R. Nisbett,M. Ashcraft,V. Goswami,D. Norris &T. Au -1995 -Cognition 55:333.No categories
- Hydrostatic pressure and the mechanical properties of NaCl polycrystals.T. A. Auten,L. A. Davis &R. B.Gordon -1973 -Philosophical Magazine 28 (2):335-341.No categories
- Short notices.D. J. Foskett,K. C. Mukherjee,George Grieve,A. C. F. Beales,W. H. Burston,Gordon R. Cross,C. M. Fleming,Ann Dryland,John Lambert,C. W. Simpson &Brian Holmes -1969 -British Journal of Educational Studies 17 (1):99-107.
- Short notices.John Hayes,Joan Taylor,James L. Henderson,A. C. F. Beales,S. J. Eggleston,Gordon R. Cross,M. F. Cleugh &J. McGibbon -1969 -British Journal of Educational Studies 17 (3):342-347.
- Short notices.A. C. F. Beales,R. F. Dearden,W. B. Inglis,R. R. Dale,Gordon R. Cross,John Hayes,S. Leslie Hunter,Robert J. Hoare,M. F. Cleugh,T. Desmond Morrow,Dorothy A. Wakeford,W. H. Burston,P. H. J. H. Gosden,Evelyn E. Cowie,Kartick C. Mukherjee,J. M. Wilson,H. C. Barnard &David Johnston -1968 -British Journal of Educational Studies 16 (1):98-112.
- Information purchase in a decision task following the presentation of free information.Gordon F. Pitz &Helen R. Barrett -1969 -Journal of Experimental Psychology 82 (3):410.
- The episodic flanker effect: Memory retrieval as attention turned inward.Gordon D. Logan,Gregory E. Cox,Jeffrey Annis &Dakota R. B. Lindsey -2021 -Psychological Review 128 (3):397-445.
- The Theology of the Real.R.Gordon Milburn -1925 -International Journal of Ethics 35 (4):437-438.
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