Rhetoric and Incommensurability

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932559493
• ISBN13: 9781932559491
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Parlor Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"