Comments on: The Rhetoric of Science http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/02/28/the-rhetoric-of-science/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:07:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Steve Phelan http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/02/28/the-rhetoric-of-science/#comment-69734 Steve Phelan Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:02:49 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=1340#comment-69734 JC - I would be interested in being involved in the PDW on Rhetoric in Management. JC - I would be interested in being involved in the PDW on Rhetoric in Management.

]]> By: JC Spender http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/02/28/the-rhetoric-of-science/#comment-69710 JC Spender Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:52:31 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=1340#comment-69710 I missed the previous discussion of Lessl and Hart so I shall now dig through the archives and recapture these threads. But before doing so let me draw this blog-ommunity's attention to the PDW on Rhetoric in Management at the upcoming Academy meeting. If anyone would like to take an active part, please get in touch ASAP. I missed the previous discussion of Lessl and Hart so I shall now dig through the archives and recapture these threads.

But before doing so let me draw this blog-ommunity’s attention to the PDW on Rhetoric in Management at the upcoming Academy meeting.

If anyone would like to take an active part, please get in touch ASAP.

]]> By: rafec http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/02/28/the-rhetoric-of-science/#comment-69680 rafec Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:58:10 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/?p=1340#comment-69680 There is a lot of confused and confusing talk about the rhetoric of science but I had better read the whole thing before teeing off on Tom. He ends on a useful note, that science is argument and debate, but it has a special purpose, at its best, which is to eliminate error and seek the truth, or in less grand terms, to find explanations of things that solve problems, stand up to tests and lead in the direction of deeper problems and deeper explanations. It also helps to disentangle the different aspects of science because it "is" no single thing, sometimes it means well tested knowledge, sometimes all the stuff in journals, sometimes the conventions that regulate the hunting and gathering practice of scientists, sometimes the community of scientists and academics, sometimes the massive and complex mix of social and political institutions that regulate, fund and generally provide the larger ecosystem that scientists inhabit. There is a lot of confused and confusing talk about the rhetoric of science but I had better read the whole thing before teeing off on Tom. He ends on a useful note, that science is argument and debate, but it has a special purpose, at its best, which is to eliminate error and seek the truth, or in less grand terms, to find explanations of things that solve problems, stand up to tests and lead in the direction of deeper problems and deeper explanations. It also helps to disentangle the different aspects of science because it “is” no single thing, sometimes it means well tested knowledge, sometimes all the stuff in journals, sometimes the conventions that regulate the hunting and gathering practice of scientists, sometimes the community of scientists and academics, sometimes the massive and complex mix of social and political institutions that regulate, fund and generally provide the larger ecosystem that scientists inhabit.

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