The Worst Enemy of Science?: Essays in Memory of Paul Feyerabend

The Worst Enemy of Science?: Essays in Memory of Paul Feyerabend

The Worst Enemy of Science?: Essays in Memory of Paul Feyerabend

The Worst Enemy of Science?: Essays in Memory of Paul Feyerabend

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Overview

This stimulating collection is devoted to the life and work of the most flamboyant of twentieth-century philosophers, Paul Feyerabend. Feyerabend's radical epistemological claims, and his stunning argument that there is no such thing as scientific method, were highly influential during his life and have only gained attention since his death in 1994. The essays that make up this volume, written by some of today's most respected philosophers of science, many of whom knew Feyerabend as students and colleagues, cover the diverse themes in his extensive body of work and present a personal account of this fascinating thinker.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195128741
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 02/10/2000
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile: 1340L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Reading

Evergreen State College, Washington

University of Birmingham

Table of Contents

Introduction, John Preston, Gonzalo Munevar, and David LambChapter 1. Paul K. Feyerabend: An Obituary, Paul Hoyningen-HueneChapter 2. Time Well Spent: On Paul Feyerabend's Autobiography, Sheldon J. ReavenChapter 3. Sola Experientia?—Feyerabend's Refutation of Classical Empiricism, Bas C. van FraassenChapter 4. Proliferation: Is It a Good Thing?, Peter AchinsteinChapter 5. Feyerabend Among Popperians, 1948-1978, John WatkinsChapter 6. A Rehabilitation of Paul Feyerabend, Gonzalo MunevarChapter 7. Science as Supermarket: Post Modern Themes in Paul Feyerabend's Later Philosophy of Science, John PrestonChapter 10. Two Concepts of Political Tolerance, J.N. HattiangadiChapter 11. To Transform the Phenomena: Feyerabend, Proliferation, and Recurrent Neural Networks, Paul M. ChurchlandChapter 12. Paul K. Feyerabend: Last Interview, Joachim Jung
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