The Natural Philosophical Essay—Reflections on a Genre

IF 0.3 4区哲学 0 LITERATURE

PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.5325/philrhet.55.3.0303

Howard Caygill

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Abstract

abstract:The article reflects on the natural scientific variant of the philosophical essay, with discussions of the essays of James Clerk Marxwell, Steven Jay Gould, and Carlo Rovelli. It suggests that the natural scientific essay is an important source of the philosophical essay eclipsed by the prominence of the essay form in art and literary criticism. It assesses the role of chance and improvisation in the natural scientific essay and considers its potential as an avenue both of scientific research and of the wider dissemination of scientific thought.

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自然哲学散文——对一个体裁的反思

文摘：本文通过对詹姆斯·克拉克·马尔克斯韦尔、史蒂文·杰伊·古尔德和卡洛·罗维利的散文的讨论，对哲学散文的自然科学变体进行了反思。自然科学散文是哲学散文的重要来源，而散文形式在艺术和文学批评中的突出地位使之黯然失色。它评估了偶然性和即兴性在自然科学文章中的作用，并认为其作为科学研究和更广泛传播科学思想的途径的潜力。

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0.70

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期刊介绍： Philosophy and Rhetoric is dedicated to publication of high-quality articles involving the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. It has a longstanding commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship and welcomes all theoretical and methodological perspectives that advance the journal"s mission. Philosophy and Rhetoric invites articles on such topics as the relationship between logic and rhetoric, the philosophical aspects of argumentation, philosophical views on the nature of rhetoric held by historical figures and during historical periods, psychological and sociological studies of rhetoric with a strong philosophical emphasis, and philosophical analyses of the relationship to rhetoric of other areas of human culture and thought, political theory and law.