Department of Communication

John Lyne

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor of Communication, Faculty of Bioethics, Resident Fellow, Center for the Philosophy of Science

1127 Cathedral of Learning
Phone: 412-648-7664
E-mail: jlyne@pitt.edu

John Lyne studies philosophical and theoretical issues in rhetoric and communication, argumentation, and rhetoric of science. His work explores the ways that rhetoric mediates among science, philosophy, and culture. He also teaches a graduate seminar on the rhetoric and philosophy of medicine in the M.A. program in bioethics and health law. His published work appears in journals and edited books both inside and outside the field of communication, and he has been editor-in-chief for a book series on the rhetoric of inquiry. He has directed several national award-winning dissertations. Recent doctoral advisees teach at the University of Colorado, Temple University, Tulane University, and the Claremont Graduate University.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses
Graduate Courses

Selected Publications

"Science, Common Sense, and the Third Culture,” Argumentation and Advocacy, 42 (Summer, 2005), 38-42.

"Not Every Two-Sidedness is a Dualism: A Response to Lessl,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 5(4), 737-741. 2003.

"Contours of Intervention: How Rhetoric Matters to Biomedicine," Journal of Medical Humanities, 22. Spring 2001.

"Knowledge and Performance in Argument: Disciplinarity and Proto-Theory,"Argumentation and Advocacy, 35, 1-7. Summer 1998.

"Intelligent Dasein," Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 1. December 1998.

"Gene Talk in Sociobiology," (with Henry Howe, first author), Social Epistemology, 6(2), 1-54. 1992. (Entire issue devoted to monograph by Howe and Lyne and critical responses from various  disciplines)

"The Culture of Inquiry," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 76, 192-208. May 1990.

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Curriculum Vitae

Bioethics and Health Law Faculty

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