John Lyne
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor of Communication, Director of Graduate Studies, 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 relationships between 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 volumes 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 have taken faculty positions at the University of Colorado, Temple University, Tulane University, and the Claremont Graduate University. Professor Lyne is the recipient of the 2010 Provost's Award for Excellence in Mentoring, for his success at mentoring doctoral students
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses
- Rhetorical Process
- Rhetoric of Science
- Argument
- Discussion
- 20th-Century Public Argument
- Media Criticism
Graduate Courses
- Modern Theories of Rhetoric
- Science and Its Rhetorics
- Rhetoric and Common Sense
- Kenneth Burke
- The Rhetoric of Pain
- The Philosophy of Medicine
Selected Publications
“Rhetoric and the Third Culture: Scientists and Arguers and Critics,” in Mark Porrovecchio, ed., Reengaging the Prospect of Rhetoric (Routledge: 2010), 132-152.)
"Rhetoric Across the Disciplines," Section co-edited w/ Introduction with Carolyn Miller, _The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies_, Edited by Andrea. A. Lunsford (SAGE Publications, 2009), pp 167-284.
"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.