LEADER 04167nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910820494903321 005 20240410202306.0 010 $a3-11-089176-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110891768 035 $a(CKB)3360000000338687 035 $a(OCoLC)811407731 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10597731 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000713832 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12259673 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713832 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10663741 035 $a(PQKB)10560673 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3041922 035 $a(DE-B1597)56861 035 $a(OCoLC)979735051 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110891768 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3041922 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10597731 035 $a(OCoLC)922944935 035 $a(EXLCZ)993360000000338687 100 $a20070710d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFeyerabend's philosophy /$fby Eric Oberheim 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cWalter de Gruyter$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 225 0 $aQuellen und Studien zur Philosophie,$x0344-8142 ;$vBd. 73 300 $aRevised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universita?t Hannover, 2004. 311 0 $a3-11-018907-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-315) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tPreface --$tContents --$tAnalytic Table Of Contents --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. Feyerabend's Philosophical Development --$tChapter 1. Facing Feyerabend. Some preliminary problems --$tChapter 2. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Meaning and Ontology --$tChapter 3. Karl Popper. Using and abusing critical rationalism --$tChapter 4. Felix Ehrenhaft. The impotence of experiment --$tPart II. Feyerabend's Assault on Conceptual Conservativism --$tChapter 5. Incommensurability as attack on conceptual conservativism --$tChapter 6. Incommensurability and scientific realism --$tPart III. Feyerabend's Philosophical Pluralism --$tChapter 7. Feyerabend's methods --$tChapter 8. The role of alternatives in promoting progress --$tChapter 9. Feyerabend's philosophical pluralism (1950s-1990s) --$tLiterature --$tIndex 330 $aPaul 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. 606 $aMethodology$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPhilosophy, Austrian$y20th century 606 $aPhilosophy, Modern$y20th century 610 $aAncient philosophy. 610 $aEhrenhaft, Felix. 610 $aFeyerabend, Paul. 610 $aPopper, Karl. 610 $aWittgenstein, Ludwig. 615 0$aMethodology$xHistory 615 0$aPhilosophy, Austrian 615 0$aPhilosophy, Modern 676 $a191 686 $aCI 2237$2rvk 700 $aOberheim$b Eric$01645777 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820494903321 996 $aFeyerabend's philosophy$93992465 997 $aUNINA