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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962514203321

Titolo

The worst enemy of science? : essays in memory of Paul Feyerabend / / edited by John Preston, Gonzalo Munévar, and David Lamb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773199-6

1-280-53049-9

0-19-535171-1

1-4294-0385-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

193

501

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Paul K. Feyerabend: An Obituary; 2. Time Well Spent: On Paul Feyerabend's Autobiography; 3. Sola Experientia? Feyerabend's Refutation of Classical Empiricism; 4. Proliferation: Is it a Good Thing?; 5. Feyerabend among Popperians, 1948-1978; 6. A Réhabilitation of Paul Feyerabend; 7. Science as Supermarket: 'Postmodern' Themes in Paul Feyerabend's Later Philosophy of Science; 8. Paul Feyerabend and Thomas Kuhn; 9. Feyerabend, Mill, and Pluralism; 10. Two Concepts of Political Tolerance

11. To Transform the Phenomena: Feyerabend, Proliferation, and Recurrent Neural Networks12. Paul K. Feyerabend: Last Interview; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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.