History and Philosophy of Science Seminar 4:00 Wednesday,Seminar Room 2 “Fictions for Facts: The Form and Authority of the Scientific Dialogue”

[Readers will see the list was revised after the discussion period.]

Bakhtin Mikhail , The dialogic imagination, trans. by Emerson Caryl and Holquist Michael (Austin, 1981).

Bazerman Charles , Shaping written knowledge (Madison, 1988).

Burton Deirdre , Dialogue and discourse: A sociolinguistic approach to modern drama and naturally occurring conversation (London, 1980).

Fleck Ludwik , The genesis and development of a scientific fact [1935], trans. by Bradley Fred and Trenn Thaddeus T. (Chicago, 1979).

Freire Paulo , Pedagogy of the oppressed (New York, 1979).

Goffman Erving , Forms of talk (Oxford, 1981).

Jardine Nicholas , “Demonstration, dialectic, and rhetoric in Galileo's Dialogue”, in Kelley D. R. and Popkin R. H. (eds), The shapes of knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Dordrecht, 1991), 101–21.

Knight David , “Accomplishment or dogma: Chemistry in the introductory works of Jane Marcet and Samuel Parkes”, Ambix, xxxiii (1986), 94–98.

Lindee M. Susan , “The American career of Jane Marcet's Conversations on chemistry, 1806–1853”, Isis, lxxxii (1991), 8–23.

Lodge David , “After Bakhtin”, in his After Bakhtin: Essays on fiction and criticism (London, 1990), 87–99.

Lodge David , Small world (London, 1984).

Medawar P. B. , “Is the scientific article fraudulent?” Saturday review, xli (issue of 1 August 1964), 42–43.

Miller Carolyn , “Genre as social action”, Quarterly journal of speech, lxx (1984), 151–67.

Multhauf Robert , “Some non-existent chemists of the seventeenth century: Remarks on the use of dialogue in scientific writing”, in Debus A. G. and Multhauf R. P. (eds), Alchemy and chemistry in the seventeenth century (Los Angeles, 1966).

Myers Greg , “Science for women and children: The dialogue of popular science in the nineteenth century”, in Christie J. and Shuttleworth S. (eds), Nature transfigured: Science and literature 1700–1900 (Manchester, 1989), 171–200.

Searle John , “The logical status of fictional discourse”, Expression and meaning (Cambridge, 1979), 58–75.

Secord James , “Newton in the nursery: Tom Telescope and the philosophy of tops and balls, 1761–1838”, History of science, xxiii (1985), 127–51.

Shapin Steven and Schaffer Simon , Leviathan and the air-pump (Princeton, 1985).

Sinclair John , “Fictional worlds”, in Coulthard Malcolm (ed), Talking about text (Birmingham, 1986), 43–60.

Toolan Michael , Narrative: A critical linguistic introduction (London, 1988).

Wynne Anna , “Reading against form: Of dialogue”, in Re: Reading written data: On the interpretability of transcripts of talk about multiple sclerosis (Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Human Sciences, Brunei University, 1989).

Abbot Edwin A. , [“A Square”] Flatland: A romance of many dimensions [1884] (rpt, Oxford, 1962).

Aitchison Jean , The articulate mammal: An introduction to psycholinguistics, 2nd edn (London, 1983). Chapter 8 presents generative grammar in terms of the King of Jupiter's attempts to analyse human language.

Ashmore Malcolm , The reflexive thesis: Wrighting the sociology of scientific knowledge (Chicago, 1989). Besides the entries under “Dialogues” in the index, see the opening lecture and the encyclopedia.

Ashmore Malcom Mulkay Michael and Pinch Trevor , Health and efficiency: A sociology of health economies (Milton Keynes, 1989). Chapters 5 and 6 are in dialogue form, and Chapter 4, “Fury over Prof's kidney call” is a montage of clippings.

Boyle Robert , The sceptical chymist [1661] (rpt, London, 1964).

Caxton William , Vocabulary in French and English: A facsimile of Caxton's edition ca. 1480 (rpt, Cambridge, 1964). An early example in English, based on an earlier French example, of the ubiquitous dialogues for language teaching.

Connor W. J. , The stoker's catechism (London, 1906).

Darwin Erasmus , The botanic garden, a poem in two parts, containing The economy of vegetation and The loves of the plants (rpt, London, 1824).

Day Thomas , The history of Sandford and Merton (A tale for boys) [1783] (rpt, London, 1847). A few scientific lessons among the moral lessons for boys.

Dowie Jack , Professional judgement, Course materials for [Open University] course D321 (Milton Keynes, 1989).

Drake Stillman , Cause, experiment, and science: A Galilean dialogue incorporating a new English translation of Galileo's “Bodies that stay atop water, or move in it” (Chicago, 1981).

Edgeworth Richard Lovell and Edgeworth Maria , Harry and Lucy [1783], reprinted in Early lessons (London, n.d). The story leads to moral and social lessons as well as experiments with thermometers and soap bubbles.

Feyerabend Paul , Three dialogues on knowledge (Oxford, 1991). The first dialogue is based on a university seminar.

Freud Sigmund , The question of lay analysis [1926], trans. by Strachey James , reprinted in Two short accounts of psycho-analysis (London, 1991).

Galilei Galileo , Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems — Ptolemaic and Copernican [1629], trans. by Drake Stillman (Berkeley, 1962).

Galilei Galileo , Dialogues concerning two new sciences [1638], trans. by Crew Henry and de Salvio Alfonso (rpt, New York, 1954).

Gamow George , Mr. Tompkins in paperback (rpt, Cambridge, 1964). Collects a series of stories, started in the late 1930s: A bank clerk enters worlds of altered quantum constants by falling asleep at lectures on physics.

de Monthoux Pierre Guillet , Action and existence: Anarchism for business administration (Chichester, 1983). See the dialogue with the sceptic on pp. 220–7, and the fictional preface and epilogue.

Hicks Diana and Potter Jonathan , “Sociology of scientific knowledge: A reflexive citation analysis or Scientific disciplines and disciplining science”, Social studies of science, xxi (1991), 459–501.

Higgins Roger , “A dialogue on the Navajo classifier”, Diné Bizaad Nánil'iih/Navajo language review, i (1974), 95–119, 121–53.

Hobbes Thomas , “Dialogus physicus” [1661], trans. by Schaffer Simon , in Shapin Steven and Schaffer Simon , Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life (Princeton, 1985), 345–92.

Hofstader Douglas , “A coffeehouse conversation on the Turing Test to determine if a machine can think”, Scientific American, ccxliv (issue of May 1981), 15–25. Three students from biology, computing, and philosophy debate the Turing test.

Tooke John Home , The diversions of Purley [1798 and 1805] (rpt, Menston, 1968).

Jauch Josef Maria , Are quanta real?: A Galilean dialogue [1973] (rpt, Bloomington, 1989).

Joyce Jeremiah , Scientific dialogues: Intended for the instruction and entertainment of young people [1807] (rpt, London, n.d).

Kingsley Charles , Madam How and Lady Why, or First lessons in earth lore for children [1869] (rpt, London, n.d).

Lane Harlan , When the mind hears: A history of the deaf (New York, 1984). Written in the persona of Laurent Clerc in 1869.

Laudan Larry , Science and relativism (Chicago, 1990).

Mangnall Richmal , Historical and miscellaneous questions for the use of young people; with a selection of British and general biography, &c. &c., ed. by Wright G. N. (London, n.d).

Marcet Jane , Conversations on chemistry, in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiment [1806], 3rd edn (London, 1808).

Marcet Jane , Conversations on natural philosophy, in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained, and adapted to the comprehension of young persons [1819], 11th edn (London, 1847).

Marcet Jane , Conversation on vegetable physiology: Comprehending the elements of botany with their application to agriculture, 3rd edn (London, 1839).

Mulkay Michael , (ed.), “Looking backward”, Science, technology, and human values, xiv (1989), 441–59. An account of changing attitudes towards scientific knowledge, presented as a tape of a speech by a woman sent back from 100 years in the future.

Mulkay Michael , The word and the world: Explorations in the form of sociological analysis (London, 1985). Experiments with form include a self-commenting text, various dialogues, a one-act play, and a parody of a Nobel Prize address.

Needham Joseph , “Prefatory dialogue”, in The sceptical biologist (London, 1929), 3–8.

Parkes Samuel , A chemical catechism [1806], 3rd edn (London, 1808).

Pinch Trevor and Pinch Trevor , “Reservations about reflexivity and new literary forms, or Why let the devil have all the good tunes”, in Woolgar Steve (ed.), Knowledge and reflexivity: New frontiers in the sociology of knowledge (London, 1988), 178–97. A dialogue on New Literary Forms.

Record Robert , The grounde of artes [1542] (rpt, Amsterdam, 1969). One of his several mathematical textbooks in dialogue.

Rényi Alfréd , A diary in information theory [1984], trans. by Makkai-Bencsáth Zsuzsanna (Chichester, 1987).

Rényi Alfréd , Dialogues on mathematics [1965] (San Francisco, 1967).

Ruskin John , The ethics of the dust: Ten lectures to little housewives on the elements of crystallisation [1865], in Cook E. T. and Wedderburn A. (eds), The works of John Ruskin, xviii (London, 1905).

Scott Dana , (ed.), “Semantical archaeology: A parable”, in Davidson D. and Harman G. , Semantics of natural language (Dordrecht, 1972), 666–74. Don't ask me.

Sherratt Bernard , Reading relations: Structures of literary production, A dialectical text/book (Brighton, 1982). Includes a fictional Ph.D. dissertation, which includes a fictional M. A. dissertation, as well as an examination with answers, a montage of quotations, fictional reviews and publisher's referees' comments.

Stewart Balfour and Tait P. G. , Paradoxical philosophy (A sequel to “The unseen universe”) (London, 1879).

Walton Izaak and Cotton Charles , The compleat angler, 5th edn [1876] (rpt, Oxford, 1982).

Watts Isaac , The art of reading and writing English [1721] (rpt, Menston, 1972). Watts gives up on the form halfway through, due to lack of space he says.

Woolgar Steve , “A coffeehouse conversation on the possibility of mechanizing discovery and its sociological analysis”, Social studies of science, xix (1989), 658–68. Part of a symposium on claims for computer simulation of scientific discovery; for the title see Hofstader.

Woolgar Steve , “Configuring the user: The case of usability trials”, in Law John (ed.), A sociology of monsters: Essays on power, technology, and domination (London, 1991), 57–99.

Wynne Anna , “Accounting for accounts of the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis”, in Woolgar Steve (ed.), Knowledge and reflexivity: New frontiers in the sociology of knowledge (London, 1988), 101–22.

Zihlman Adrienne and Lowenstein Jerold , “A few words with Ruby”, New scientist, 14 April 1983, 81–83. In an interview, a 3-million-year-old revived frozen australopithecine woman comments on interpretations by physical anthropologists. “One thing hasn't changed in three million years. Males still think sex explains everything”.