Rhetoric and Incommensurability

Edited and Introduced by Randy Allen Harris Rhetoric of Science and Technology Edited by Alan Gross Information and Pricing978-1-932559-49-1 (paperback, $34); 978-1-932559-50-7 (hardcover, $65); 978-1-932559-51-4 (PDF, $19.99). © 2005 by Parlor Press; 596 pages, with index, notes, and bibliography. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book 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 disciplin