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Sophistical refutations in the climate change debates.
Goodwin, Jean. (2019). Sophistical refutations in the climate change debates. Journal of Argumentation in Context 8:1, 40–64. https://doi.org/10.1075/jaic.18008.goo A case study of a short televised debate between a climate scientist and an advocate for climate skepticism provides the basis for developing a contemporary conception of sophistry. The sophist has a high degree of argumentative content […]
Demonstrating objectivity in controversial science communication: A case study of GMO scientist Kevin Folta.
October 13, 2018
Goodwin, Jean. (2016). Demonstrating objectivity in controversial science communication: A case study of GMO scientist Kevin Folta. OSSA Conference Archive. 69. Retrieved from https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA11/papersandcommentaries/69 Scientists can find it difficult to be seen as objective within the chaos of a civic controversy. This paper gives a normative pragmatic account of the strategy one GMO scientist used […]
Re-framing climate controversy: The strategies of The Hartwell Paper
October 8, 2018
Goodwin, Jean. (Forthcoming, 2019) Re-framing climate controversy: The strategies of The Hartwell Paper. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. In the public sphere, standpoints often seem to be locked into pro/con constellations. This essay documents the strategies of “pointing out,” narrative and metaphor used in The Hartwell Paper […]
Conceptions of speech acts in the theory and practice of argumentation
April 20, 2014
Goodwin, Jean. (2014). Conceptions of speech acts in the theory and practice of argumentation: A case study of a debate about advocating. Studies in Logic, Grammar & Rhetoric, 36 (49), 79-98. Far from being of interest only to argumentation theorists, concep- tions of speech acts play an important role in practitioners’ self-reflection on their own activities. […]
A Preliminary Report on Cases for Teaching Responsible Communication of Science
February 4, 2014
Goodwin, Jean, Michael Dahlstrom, Mari Kemis, Clark Wolf & Christine Hutchison. (2013). A Preliminary Report on Cases for Teaching Responsible Communication of Science. In Jean Goodwin, Michael F. Dahlstrom & Susanna Priest (Eds.), Ethical issues in science communication: A theory-based approach (pp. 71-79). Charleston, SC: CreateSpace. As scientists heed the call to achieve broader impacts […]
Towards a research agenda for science communication ethics
February 4, 2014
Goodwin, Jean, Dahlstrom, Michael F., & Priest, Susanna. (2013). Introduction: Towards a research agenda for science communication ethics. In Jean Goodwin, Michael F. Dahlstrom & Susanna Priest (Eds.), Ethical issues in science communication: A theory-based approach (pp. 1-3). Charleston, SC: CreateSpace. The ethical issues surrounding communication of science to the public, as predicted before the […]
Introduction: Collaborations between scientists and rhetoricians of science/technology/medicine
February 4, 2014
Goodwin, J. (2014). Introduction: Collaborations between scientists and rhetoricians of science/technology/medicine. Poroi, 10(1). doi:10.13008/2151-2957.1176 It is the best of times: scientists and humanists studying communication know they need each other. It is the worst of times: what we expect of each other doesn’t match up. In this introduction to a special section of Poroi, I describe […]
February 19, 2019
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