Rhetorical Perspectivism: an Epistemologically Meaningful Response to Incommensurability
Date of Graduation
Summer 1994
Degree
Master of Arts in Communication
Department
Communication
Committee Chair
Holt Spicer
Abstract
Traditional views of rhetoric have combined with modern field theory and epistemics to bifurcate rhetoric and dialectic. Therefore, conflicting knowledge claims are considered incommensurate conflicts. This study is designed to investigate the relationship between communication and knowledge and suggest an epistemologically meaningful response to incommensurability. Rhetorical perspectivism is reviewed as a theory of rhetorical epistemology, and applied to the McLean v. Arkansas evolution/creation trial. The study found that the theory provides significant insight into the creation/evolution conflict. The results suggest future possiblities for the study of rhetorical epistemology, particularly rhetorical perspectivism.
Subject Categories
Communication
Copyright
© Brett A Miller
Recommended Citation
Miller, Brett A., "Rhetorical Perspectivism: an Epistemologically Meaningful Response to Incommensurability" (1994). MSU Graduate Theses. 512.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/512
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