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Feyerabend's philosophy / by Eric Oberheim.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie ; Bd. 73.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (x, 321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110891768
  • 311089176X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Feyerabend's philosophy.DDC classification:
  • 191 22
LOC classification:
  • B3240.F484 O24 2006eb
Other classification:
  • CI 2237
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Contents:
Introduction -- PART I. FEYERABEND'S PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENT. Facing Feyerabend. Some preliminary problems -- Ludwig Wittgenstein. Meaning and ontology -- Karl Popper. Using and abusing critical rationalism -- Felix Ehrenhaft. The impotence of experiment -- PART II. FEYERABEND'S ASSAULT ON CONCEPTUAL CONSERVATISM. Incommensurability as attack on conceptual conservatism -- Incommensurability and scientific realism -- PART III. FEYERABEND'S PHILOSOPHICAL PLURALISM. Feyerabend's methods -- The role of alternatives in promoting progress -- Feyerabend's philosophical pluralism (1950s-1990s) -- Conclusions: Feyerabend's philosophy? Pluralism for progress.
Summary: Paul Feyerabend ranks among the most exciting and influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. This book reconstructs Feyerabend's pluralistic conceptions of knowledge and philosophy as they developed from the late 1940s through to his infamous Against Method. It combines a historical narrative of the main influences on his developing ideas with a systematic investigation of their merits. It presents Feyerabend as a philosopher who promoted pluralism in the pursuit of progress.
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Hannover, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-315) and index.

Introduction -- PART I. FEYERABEND'S PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENT. Facing Feyerabend. Some preliminary problems -- Ludwig Wittgenstein. Meaning and ontology -- Karl Popper. Using and abusing critical rationalism -- Felix Ehrenhaft. The impotence of experiment -- PART II. FEYERABEND'S ASSAULT ON CONCEPTUAL CONSERVATISM. Incommensurability as attack on conceptual conservatism -- Incommensurability and scientific realism -- PART III. FEYERABEND'S PHILOSOPHICAL PLURALISM. Feyerabend's methods -- The role of alternatives in promoting progress -- Feyerabend's philosophical pluralism (1950s-1990s) -- Conclusions: Feyerabend's philosophy? Pluralism for progress.

Paul Feyerabend ranks among the most exciting and influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. This book reconstructs Feyerabend's pluralistic conceptions of knowledge and philosophy as they developed from the late 1940s through to his infamous Against Method. It combines a historical narrative of the main influences on his developing ideas with a systematic investigation of their merits. It presents Feyerabend as a philosopher who promoted pluralism in the pursuit of progress.

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