Judgment, Rhetoric, and the Problem of Incommensurability
Subtitle: Recalling Practical Wisdom
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781570034008
Subjects: Communication Studies; Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Rhetoric (General); Literary Criticism; Logic; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Rhetoric; Reasoning; LAN; LAN015000; PHI016000; PHI; Comparison (Philosophy); History & Surveys - Modern; Judgment (Logic); Philosophy
First sentence: One version of the question that has motivated this study is this: When absolute knowledge of what is right and what is wrong seems impossible in an age of skepticism and uncertainty such as ours, how are we to act?
Description: "Nola J. Heidlebaugh considers the question of how, in an age of diversity and pluralism, contemporary society can productively address divisive issues. Looking at the dominant postmodern understandings of rhetoric, as well as at arguments extracted from Thomas S. Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Heidlebaugh finds that many social debates are regarded as intractable because of an incommensurability between the conceptions figuring in the competing positions taken.

She offers a redefinition of rhetoric that moves beyond stalemates and produces more inventive arguments."--BOOK JACKET.