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Philosophy of Sciences

2016 year, number 4

THE RHETORICAL TURN: RHETORIC OF INQUIRY CONCEPT

A.V. Kosarev
Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Nikolaeva str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
Keywords: риторический поворот, лингвистический поворот, интерпретативный поворот, риторика, наука, объективизм, аргументированность, картезианская рациональность, коммуникативная рациональность, rhetorical turn, linguistic turn, interpretive turn, rhetoric, science, objectivism, argumentation, Cartesian rationality, communicative rationality

Abstract

The phenomenon of the rhetorical turn is considered as the third link in the line of the other two theoretical turning points of the development of scientific knowledge in XX century - the linguistic and interpretative turns. The paper discusses the nature of rhetorical turn in relation to the other two, and analyzes its specific features. Among them are a focus on non-disciplinary and meta-disciplinary, more unified arguments, contextuality of methodology, giving greater weight to the principles of Human Sciences and the rejection of the principles of objectivism which are inherent in Cartesian rationality. The paper makes a conclusion about the transition, linked with the rhetorical turn, to a new, communicative type of rationality.