Rhetoric and Incommensurability
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Rhetoric and Incommensurability

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Rhetoric and Incommensurability

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Rhetoric and Incommensurability examines the complex relationships among rhetoric, philosophy, and science as they converge on the question of incommensurability, the notion jointly (though not collaboratively) introduced to science studies in 1962 by Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend. The incommensurability thesis represents the most profound problem facing argumentation and dialogue—in science, surely, but in any symbolic encounter, any attempt to cooperate, find common ground, get along, make better knowledge, and build better societies. This volume brings rhetoric, the chief discipline that studies argumentation and dialogue, to bear on that problem, finding it much more tractable than have most philosophical accounts.

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Information

Publisher
Parlor Press, LLC
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9781932559491
eBook ISBN
9781932559514
Topic
Filosofia
Subtopic
Retorica

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraphs
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. I Incommensurability, Rhetoric
  9. 1 Introduction by Randy Allen Harris
  10. 2 Three Biographies: Kuhn, Feyerabend, andIncommensurability by Paul Hoyningen-Huene
  11. II Issues
  12. 3 Kuhn’s Incommensurability by Alan G. Gross
  13. 4 Incommensurate Boundaries: The Rhetorical Positivismof Thomas Huxley by Thomas M. Lessl
  14. 5 The Rhetoric of Philosophical Incommensurability by Herbert W. Simons
  15. III Cases
  16. 6 Science and Civil Debate: The Case of E. O. Wilson’s Sociobiology by Leah Ceccarelli
  17. 7 Stasis and the Problem of Incommensurate Communication: The Case of Spousal Violence Research by Lawrence J. Prelli
  18. 8 8 The “Anxiety of Influence,” Hermeneutic Rhetoric, and the Triumph of Darwin’s Invention over Incommensurability by John Angus Campbell
  19. 9 Cell and Membrane: The Rhetorical Strategies of a Marginalized View by Jeanne Fahnestock
  20. 10 Measuring Incommensurability: Are Toxicology and Ecotoxicology Blind to What the Other Sees? by Charles Bazerman and René Agustín De los Santos
  21. 11 Novelty and Heresy in the Debate on Nonthermal Effects of Electromagnetic Fields by Carolyn R. Miller
  22. References
  23. Index
  24. Back cover