A DISCRIMINARY AND UNIFIED DIALECTICS MARILYN DIPTYICH

Pragma-dialectics and Beyond

Pragma-dialectics is dynamic, context-sensitive, and multi-agent; it promises theories of fallacy and argumentative structure. But pragma-dialectic theory and practice are not yet fully in harmony. Key definitions of the theory fall short of explicating the analyses that pragma-dialecticians actually do. Many discussions involve more than two participants with different and mutually incompatibl...

Geographic dialectics ?

As radical geography, inflected by Marx, has transformed into critical geography, influenced by poststructuralism and feminism, dialectical reasoning has come under attack from some poststructural geographers. Their construction of dialectics as inconsistent with poststructural thinking, difference, and assemblages is based, however, on a Hegelian conception of the dialectic. This Hegelian imag...

Dialectics, Evaluation, and Argument

Marilyn Farquhar: From the beginning

F ew people have a perspective on cell biology that can compare to Marilyn Farquhar's. She was there at the very beginning and, over the course of her career, has both witnessed and helped guide the evolution of the fi eld. She has served as faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and at Yale. And, as the fi rst head of the Depart-(UCSD), she nurtured the development of th...

Dialectics and Mathematics