This site is for the study of rhetoric and incommensurability, particularly as it is developed in the unsurprisingly titled, multi-authored, book from Parlor Press, Rhetoric and incommensurability. See the Contributors page for information about the authors. Download a highly compressed one-page abstract of the project (PDF format), or see the Abstracts page for information about the individual chapters.

Rhetoric and Incommensurability should attract attention from almost anyone interested in rhetoric. The incommensurability issue has implications that encompass all flavors of rhetoric, and the book seems well designed both to engage the rhetoric of science specialists and the more general audience of rhetoricians.

Michael C. Leff,editor of Rhetoric and Pedagogy: Its History, Philosophy, and Practice and NCA Distinguished Scholar

Rhetoric and Incommensurability will be of interest to rhetoricians, students of scientific rhetoric, and a range of scholars in various arenas of science studies.It will also be of interest to philosophers of science, and to philosophers interested in rhetoric. Rhetoric and Incommensurability will make an important interdisciplinary contribution to the study of incommensurability. Harris’s introduction will itself constitute an important contribution both to the rhetorical dimensions of incommensurability and to the broader ancient struggle between philosophy and rhetoric.

Harvey Siegel, author of Relativism Refuted: A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological Relativism and “Rationality and Judgment”

 

Editor
Randy Harris, Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Design
Department of English
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G1
raha@uwaterloo.ca

We are grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for its generous support of this project.