Locating the instability of the topic places: Rhetoric, phronesis and neurobiology

Arthos, John

doi:10.1080/01463370009385597

Cited by 7 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 12 publications

(8 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Despite Aristotle's intentions, his classifications of topoi remained ambiguous (Arthos, 2000). In fact, the distinction between specific and general topoi was complicated and confusing.…”

Section: Contextualizing Topoimentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The Value of Topoi

Zompetti

2006

Argumentation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Despite VancilÕs (1979) proclamation over twenty years ago that topoi have been abandoned in argument theory, this essay contends that topoi should have a vital role in contemporary argumentation theory. Four key areas are identified where topoi are (or can be) essential tools for argumentation: Locating argument, building argument, development of critical thinking, and argument pedagogy. As a result, teachers and students of argument can both benefit from a (re)discovery of topoi.

show abstract

“…Despite Aristotle's intentions, his classifications of topoi remained ambiguous (Arthos, 2000). In fact, the distinction between specific and general topoi was complicated and confusing.…”

Section: Contextualizing Topoimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Topoi are adaptive pedagogical tools that enable the instruction of most subjects (Haynes, 1996;Arthos, 2000;Wolfe, 2003). By 'adaptive,' we mean that topoi are instructional tools that can be applied to a variety of situations and learning sets.…”

Section: Argument Pedagogymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Value of Topoi

Zompetti

2006

Argumentation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Perception as a form of consciousness can be considered to emerge out of its more basic neurological and cognitive states. Even Aristotelian phronesis can be explained through a dynamic systems approach in neurobiology . Fuller understanding of empathy, practical wisdom and clinical reasoning will undoubtedly emerge as the gap between cognition and consciousness is narrowed using the tools of neuroscience and phenomenology.…”

Section: Empathy and Clinical Reasoningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conciliating cognition and consciousness: the perceptual foundations of clinical reasoning

Braude

2012

Evaluation Clinical Practice

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Clinical reasoning has been defined as a form of cognition applied to evaluating and managing a patient's medical problem. As a kind of cognition, a product of the human psyche, it is logical to expect that clinical reasoning should be best understood through methods derived from psychology, neuropsychology and the cognitive sciences. However, the application of scientific methods to evaluating clinical reasoning is unable to analyse clinical reasoning in terms of first-person experience and consciousness. By reducing clinical reasoning to its cognitive components the cognitivist approach tends to ignore the larger context in which clinical reasoning occurs. By reducing its conception of clinical reasoning to its cognitive components, the neuropsychological approach fails to acknowledge clinical reasoning as a form of intentionality, a gestalt, grounded in human perception. A full epistemology of clinical reasoning requires a phenomenological analysis that can make sense of the relation between pre-reflective consciousness and explicit forms of knowing. In this paper I conciliate cognition and consciousness in medicine through analysing the phenomenology of perception in clinical reasoning. I compare the application of phenomenology to clinical reasoning with the attempt to model clinical reasoning on Aristotelian practical wisdom or phronesis. Finally, I analyse empathy as a type of perception critical for effective clinical interaction and exemplary for reflecting on perception as the intersubjective foundation of clinical reasoning.

show abstract

“This is Your Brain on Rhetoric”: Research Directions for Neurorhetorics

Jack¹,

Appelbaum

2010

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Locating the instability of the topic places: Rhetoric, phronesis and neurobiology

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

The Value of Topoi

The Value of Topoi

Conciliating cognition and consciousness: the perceptual foundations of clinical reasoning

“This is Your Brain on Rhetoric”: Research Directions for Neurorhetorics

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About