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. The introduction charts the many variations
of incommensurability in scholarly literatures, anchoring them in
Kuhn's and Feyerabend's work; probes the implications of seeing
incommensurability as a rhetorical phenomenon; and introduces the
ten chapters from prominent scholars in the rhetoric, history, and
philosophy of science, including Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Alan G.
Gross, Thomas M. Lessl, Herbert W. Simons, Leah Ceccarelli,
Lawrence J. Prelli, John Angus Campbell, Jeanne Fahnestock, Charles
Bazerman, Rene Agustin De los Santos, and Carolyn R. Miller.
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