Publisher's Synopsis
In what follows I offer a philosophy of communication at the boundaries of disciplinarity. Philosophy and communication have long been neighborly, especially given the nearly simultaneous emergence of rhetoric and philosophy in the ancient Greek context. As Calvin O. Schrag and David James Miller have argued, philosophy and communication have been in a state of "convergence without coincidence."1 In other words, the study of communication and the study of philosophy are inextricably linked in the kinds of questions each asks, even if historically they have found themselves in spirited disagreement during the unfolding of disciplines within the development of the modern university system. We must be careful to clarify what we mean by philosophy of communication
