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Interpreting Feyerabend : critical essays / edited by Karim Bschir, Jamie Shaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feyerabend, Paul, 1924-1994.
- Feyerabend, Paul.
- Philosophy, Austrian--20th century.
- Philosophy, Austrian.
- Philosophers--Austria--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- Austria.
- Social sciences--Philosophy--History--20th century.
- Social sciences.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- History.
- Science--Philosophy--History--20th century.
- Science.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This collection of new essays interprets and critically evaluates the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend. It offers innovative historical scholarship on Feyerabend's take on topics such as realism, empiricism, mimesis, voluntarism, pluralism, materialism, and the mind-body problem, as well as certain debates in the philosophy of physics. It also considers the ways in which Feyerabend's thought can contribute to contemporary debates in science and public policy, including questions about the nature of scientific methodology, the role of science in society, citizen science, scientism, and the role of expertise in public policy. The volume will provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the topics which Feyerabend engaged with throughout his career, showing both the breadth and the depth of his thought.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Paul Feyerabend's philosophy in the 21st century / by Jamie Shaw and Karim Bschir
- Feyerabend on art and science / by Chiara Ambrosio
- The coherence of Feyerabend's pluralist realism / by Hasok Chang
- Feyerabend's general theory of scientific change / by Hakob Barseghyan
- Feyerabend's theoretical pluralism : an investigation of the epistemic value of false theories / by K. Brad Wray
- Epistemological anarchism meets epistemological voluntarism : Feyerabend's against method and van Fraassen's the empirical stance / by Martin Kusch
- Feyerabend never was an eliminative materialist : Feyerabend's meta-philosophy and the mind-body problem / by Jamie Shaw
- Feyerabend's reevaluation of scientific practice : quantum mechanics, realism and Niels Bohr / Daniel Kuby
- On Feyerabend, general relativity, and 'unreasonable' universes / J.B. Manchak
- Feyerabend, science, and scientism / by Ian James Kidd
- Matthew Brown : against expertise : a lesson from Feyerabend's Science in a free society? / by Matthew Brown
- A way forward for citizen science : taking advice from a madman / by Sarah M. Roe.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108575102
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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