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