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...
RHETORIC AND INCOMMENSURABILITY examines the complex relationships among rhetoric, philosophy, and science as they converge on the question of incomme...
Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Theories, Themes, and Methods is a companion to the successful Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies volume. Whereas the case studies volume looked at the production of science somewhat neutrally as objects of study, Theories, Themes, and Methods contains works that covers the relation of rhetoric to truth and knowing, and the importance of understanding science not as a privileged, autonomous, sacrosanct enterprise, but as a set of value-saturated, profoundly influential rhetorical practices. It also...
Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Theories, Themes, and Methods is a companion to the successful Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of ...
Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Theories, Themes, and Methods is a companion to the successful Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies volume. Whereas the case studies volume looked at the production of science somewhat neutrally as objects of study, Theories, Themes, and Methods contains works that covers the relation of rhetoric to truth and knowing, and the importance of understanding science not as a privileged, autonomous, sacrosanct enterprise, but as a set of value-saturated, profoundly influential rhetorical practices. It also...
Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of Science: Theories, Themes, and Methods is a companion to the successful Landmark Essays in Rhetoric of ...
