Before we begin, please take another look at the title; in particular, please notice that, open-
ended and swollen though it is, it manages to avoid three words, one big, one mid-sized …

Scientific popularizations are generally considered translations (often dubious ones) of
scientific research for a lay audience. This study explores the role popularizations play …

Rhetoric and Incommensurability examines the complex relationships among rhetoric,
philosophy, and science as they converge on the question of incommensurability, the notion …

In looking back at the last review of research on the language-science connection to appear
in ARAL (van Naerssen and Kaplan 1987), one is struck by the great changes in this …

“Dissent” can be both a noun and a verb. The Cambridge Dictionary defines the noun,
dissent, as a “strong difference of opinion; disagreement esp. about official decisions,”“a …

The argument is sometimes made that a reading is" only" an interpretation because an
alternative could, in principle, always be devised. But this challenge is serious only if a better …

The Many Voices of Modern Physics follows a revolution that began in 1905 when Albert
Einstein published papers on special relativity and quantum theory. Unlike Newtonian …

I have noticed when I was younger, that lots of old men in the field couldn't understand new
ideas very well, and resisted them with one method or another, and that they were very …

This chapter presents a critical examination of the prevailing rhetoric of objectivity and
objectivism in psychological science discourse. In the chapter, the authors contribute to and …

The language through which scientific advancements are relayed reflects specific social,
political, and cultural needs and expectations, as well as specific constellations of hopes …