The Worst Enemy of Science?

Essays in Memory of Paul Feyerabend
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-512874-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feyerabend, Paul

Preston, John

Munévar, Gonzalo

Munevar, Gonzalo

Lamb, David

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Paul Hoyningen-Huene: Paul K. Feyerabend: An Obituary

- 2: Sheldon J. Reaven: Time Well Spent: On Paul Feyerabend's Autobiography

- 3: Bas C. van Fraassen: Sola Experientia?--Feyerabend's Refutation of Classical Empiricism

- 4: Peter Achinstein: Proliferation: Is It a Good Thing?

- 5: John Watkins: Feyerabend Among Popperians, 1948-1978

- 6: Gonzalo Munevar: A Rehabilitation of Paul Feyerabend

- 7: John Preston: Science as Supermarket: Post Modern Themes in Paul Feyerabend's Later Philosophy of Science

- 10: J.N. Hattiangadi: Two Concepts of Political Tolerance

- 11: Paul M. Churchland: To Transform the Phenomena: Feyerabend, Proliferation, and Recurrent Neural Networks

- 12: Joachim Jung: Paul K. Feyerabend: Last Interview