Our Rhetoric of Science seminar had the wonderful opportunity last week to talk with Dr. Aimee Roundtree about her fantastic book, Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination: How Virtual Evidence Shapes Science in the Making and in the News. Dr. Roundtree’s book offers a wonderful analysis illustrating how scientific knowledge creation is grounded in consensus-building, deliberation, and a range of different types of empirical and nonempirical evidence. It was fantastic to get to hear her speak about those ideas in the context of simulations having to do with Hurricane Katrina, astrophysics, and climate change. Do yourself a favor and check this book out asap! Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination: How Virtual Evidence Shapes Science in the Making and in the News – 9780739175576 (rowman.com)
