Deliberative Architectonic Rhetoric: A New Method for Resolving Interdisci plinary Conflicts A Dissertation Proposal Submitted to the Committee on Social Thought Adam Kissel The University of Chicago Accepted May 2003 Revised April 2005 Readers: Danielle Allen Wayne Booth Richard Buchanan Donald Levine Page 2 Kissel 2 Deliberative Architectonic Rhetoric: A New Method for Resolving Interdisci plinary Conflicts Abstract Deliberations about joint projects often go awry when representatives ofdiverse disciplines fail to understand or make good use of the arguments presented from each other’s perspective. This problem may occur, for example, when research faculty make decisions about an undergraduate general-education curriculum, or when scientists assemble to determine the contents of a science museum. Achieving mutual understanding is often insufficient for resolving such interdisciplinary disputes. Rather, the deliberators can ask more and better questions and can better organize those questions, arriving at better or optimal decisions, by employing a comprehensiveness criterion throughout their deliberations. This method, “deliberativ e architectonic rhetoric,” integrates stasis theory, its closest relative, with Richard McKeon’s work and related work on rhetorical invention and other studies in the rhetoric of inquiry. Introduction
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