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Paul Feyerabend's radical epistemological claims, and his argument that there is no such thing as scientific method, were influential during his life and have gained in attention since his death in 1994. These essays cover the diverse themes in his extensive body of work.
Philosophy, German --- Feyerabend, Paul, --- Feyerabend, P. K. --- Feyerabend, Paul Karl
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This volume examines Popper’s philosophy by analyzing the criticism of his most popular critics: Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend and Imre Lakatos. They all followed his rejection of the traditional view of science as inductive. Starting from the assumption that Hume’s criticism of induction is valid, the book explores the central criticism and objections that these three critics have raised. Their objections have met with great success, are significant and deserve paraphrase. One also may consider them reasonable protests against Popper’s high standards rather than fundamental criticisms of his philosophy. The book starts out with a preliminary discussion of some central background material and essentials of Popper’s philosophy. It ends with nutshell representations of the philosophies of Popper. Kuhn, Feyerabend and Lakatos. The middle section of the book presents the connection between these philosophers and explains what their central ideas consists of, what the critical arguments are, how they presented them, and how valid they are. In the process, the author claims that Popper's popular critics used against him arguments that he had invented (and answered) without saying so. They differ from him mainly in that they demanded of all criticism that it should be constructive: do not stop believing a refuted theory unless there is a better alternative to it. Popper hardly ever discussed belief, delegating its study to psychology proper; he usually discussed only objective knowledge, knowledge that is public and thus open to public scrutiny.
Popper, Karl R. --- Feyerabend, Paul, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Feyerabend, P. K. --- Feyerabend, Paul Karl --- Popper, Karl Raimund --- Popper, K.R. --- Philosophy (General). --- Science --- Philosophy, general. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy and science. --- Science and philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities
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Paul Feyerabend ranks among the most exciting and influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. This reconstruction of his developing ideas combines historical and systematic considerations. Part I examines the three main influences on Feyerabend's philosophical development: Wittgenstein's later philosophy, Popper critical rationalism and Ehrenhaft's experimental effects. Part II focuses on Feyerabend's development and use of the notion of incommensurability at the heart of his philosophical critiques, and investigates his relation to realism. Feyerabend initially developed the notion of incommensurability from ideas he found in Duhem. He used the notion of incommensurability to attack many different forms of conceptual conservativism in philosophy and the natural sciences. He argued against many views on the grounds that that they would constrain the freedom necessary to develop alternative points of view, and thereby hinder scientific advance. Contrary to widespread opinion, he was never a scientific realist. Part III reconstructs Feyerabend's pluralistic conception of knowledge in the context of his pluralistic philosophical method. Feyerabend was a philosophical pluralist, who practiced pluralism in pursuit of progress.
Philosophy, Austrian --- Philosophy, Modern --- Science --- Philosophie autrichienne --- Philosophie --- Sciences --- Philosophy --- History --- Histoire --- Feyerabend, Paul, --- Methodology --- Research --- Feyerabend, P. K. --- Feyerabend, Paul Karl --- Feyerabend, Paul --- Humanities Methodology --- Methodology - History - 20th century. --- Philosophy, Austrian - 20th century. --- Philosophy, Modern - 20th century. --- Ancient philosophy. --- Ehrenhaft, Felix. --- Feyerabend, Paul. --- Popper, Karl. --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
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This book argues that the traditional image of Feyerabend is erroneous and that, contrary to common belief, he was a great admirer of science. It shows how Feyerabend presented a vision of science that represented how science really works. Besides giving a theoretical framework based on Feyerabend´s philosophy of science, the book offers criteria that can help readers to evaluate and understand research reported in important international science education journals, with respect to Feyerabend’s epistemological anarchism. The book includes an evaluation of general chemistry and physics textbooks. Most science curricula and textbooks provide the following advice to students: Do not allow theories in contradiction with observations, and all scientific theories must be formulated inductively based on experimental facts. Feyerabend questioned this widely prevalent premise of science education in most parts of the world, and in contrast gave the following advice: Scientists can accept a hypothesis despite experimental evidence to the contrary and scientific theories are not always consistent with all the experimental data. No wonder Feyerabend became a controversial philosopher and was considered to be against rationalism and anti-science. Recent research in philosophy of science, however, has shown that most of Feyerabend´s philosophical ideas are in agreement with recent trends in the 21st century. Of the 120 articles from science education journals, evaluated in this book only 9% recognized that Feyerabend was presenting a plurality of perspectives based on how science really works. Furthermore, it has been shown that Feyerabend could even be considered as a perspectival realist. Among other aspects, Feyerabend emphasized that in order to look for breakthroughs in science one does not have to be complacent about the truth of the theories but rather has to look for opportunities to “break rules” or “violate categories.” Mansoor Niaz carefully analyses references to Feyerabend in the literature and displays the importance of Feyerabend’s philosophy in analyzing, historical episodes. Niaz shows through this remarkable book a deep understanding to the essence of science. - Calvin Kalman, Concordia University, Canada In this book Mansoor Niaz explores the antecedents, context and features of Feyerabend’s work and offers a more-nuanced understanding, then reviews and considers its reception in the science education and philosophy of science literature. This is a valuable contribution to scholarship about Feyerabend, with the potential to inform further research as well as science education practice.- David Geelan, Griffith University, Australia.
Feyerabend, Paul, --- Feyerabend, P. K. --- Feyerabend, Paul Karl --- Science education. --- Teaching. --- Philosophy and science. --- History. --- Science Education. --- Teaching and Teacher Education. --- Philosophy of Science. --- History of Science. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Science and philosophy --- Science --- Didactics --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- School teaching --- Schoolteaching --- Education --- Instructional systems --- Pedagogical content knowledge --- Training --- Science education --- Scientific education
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This book offers an inside look into the notoriously tumultuous, professional relationship of two great minds: Karl Popper and Paul Feyerabend. It collects their complete surviving correspondence (1948-1967) and contains previously unpublished papers by both. An introduction situates the correspondence in its historical context by recounting how they first came to meet and an extensive editorial apparatus provides a wealth of background information along with systematic mini-biographies of persons named. Taken together, the collection presents Popper and Feyerabend’s controversial ideas against the background of the postwar academic environment. It exposes key aspects of an evolving student-mentor relationship that eventually ended amidst increasing accusations of plagiarism. Throughout, readers will find in-depth discussions on a wide range of intriguing topics, including an ongoing debate over the foundations of quantum theory and Popper’s repeated attempts to design an experiment that would test different interpretations of quantum mechanics. The captivating exchange between Feyerabend and Popper offers a valuable resource that will appeal to scientists, laymen, and a wide range of scholars: especially philosophers, historians of science and philosophy and, more generally, intellectual historians.
Feyerabend, Paul, --- Feyerabend, P. K. --- Feyerabend, Paul Karl --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy and science. --- History. --- Science—Philosophy. --- Science—History. --- History of Philosophy. --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Philosophy of Science. --- History of Science. --- Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Science and philosophy --- Science --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophy --- Social sciences. --- Humanities. --- Humanities and Social Sciences. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization
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When Barth and Scholz clashed over the scientific status of theology, Barth drew the conclusion that if natural science was to be drawn up in such positivistic terms, theology had much to lose and little to gain by engagement with it. A generation later Barth's translator and pupil Thomas Torrance maintained that science had changed enough to make an engagement more fruitful. In works such as Theological Science , Torrance sketched out the contours of such and engagement. However at the same time the anarchic philosopher of science, Paul Feyerabend, in books such as Against Method , sought to deconstruct any notion of 'science' as ultimately the protection of vested interests. This book analyses whether Torrance's notion of science can withstand this newer post-modern threat.
Religion and science --- Science --- Theology --- 1 FEYERABEND, PAUL K. --- 2:001 --- 215 --- 2 TORRANCE, THOMAS FORSYTH --- 2:001 Theologie als wetenschap. Studie en methode van de theologie --- Theologie als wetenschap. Studie en methode van de theologie --- 1 FEYERABEND, PAUL K. Filosofie. Psychologie--FEYERABEND, PAUL K. --- Filosofie. Psychologie--FEYERABEND, PAUL K. --- Propaedeutics of theology --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science and religion --- 2 TORRANCE, THOMAS FORSYTH Godsdienst. Theologie--TORRANCE, THOMAS FORSYTH --- Godsdienst. Theologie--TORRANCE, THOMAS FORSYTH --- Philosophy --- Methodology --- Godsdienst en wetenschap --- Propaedeutics --- Religious aspects --- Feyerabend, Paul --- Torrance, Thomas F. --- Torrance, T. F. --- Feyerabend, P. K. --- Feyerabend, Paul Karl --- Religion --- Methodology. --- Feyerabend, Paul, --- 1 FEYERABEND, PAUL K --- Filosofie. Psychologie--FEYERABEND, PAUL K --- Religion and science. --- Philosophy. --- Theology - Methodology. --- Science - Philosophy --- Feyerabend, Paul, - 1924-1994
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