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Deciding Staged Battles of the Past: On the Rhetorics of Olaf Müller's Historical Philosophy of Science
Ist Teil von
Journal for general philosophy of science, 2018-12, Vol.49 (4), p.569-580
Ort / Verlag
Dordrecht: Springer
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Since Plato's massive critique of the Sophists rhetoric's ill repute runs through the history of western philosophy denunciating methods of rhetoric as in large part dishonest persuasion strategies which are at most marginally interested in dealing with truths. This judgement falls way too short insofar as it distorts the historically grown stock labeled "rhetoric" not only in the Aristotelian work. With reference to Olaf Müller's philosophical book (Mehr Licht: Goethe mit Newton im Streit um die Farben, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 2015) addressing the "controversy" between Goethe and Newton about the nature of light, I will study the different rhetorical models and methods used by Newton and Goethe and also Müller himself. It becomes apparent that even works attempting to decide who was right in the long run do far more than trying to evoke true "representations" of facts or truths in the reader. The specific use of language patterns provides deeper insight into an author's mindset towards the subject area discussed in his work and generally speaking the investigation of the rhetoric of science and philosophy leads to a better understanding of different epistemic cultures both in philosophy and science.