Feyerabend and scientific values : tightrope-walking rationality /
Every philosopher of science, and every student of the philosophy of science, has heard of Paul Feyerabend: the iconoclast who supposedly asserted that science is not rational, nor objective, but is characterised by anarchism, relativism, subjectivism and power. In this book it is argued that this p...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Science+Business Media,
[2003]
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
v. 235. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1: Feyerabend's reductio ad absurdum of 'rationalist' philosophies
- 2: Feyerabend, Lakatos and anarchism
- 3: Feyerabend's incommensurability and the pragmatic theory of observation
- 4: Feyerabend's relativism
- 5: Feyerabend and pluralism
- 6: Popper, methodological pluralism and epistemic values
- 7: Kuhn on paradigms, rules and values
- 8: Tightrope-walking rationality: Feyerabend's metanarrative
- 9: Feyerabend and world-views
- References
- Index.