Interpreting Feyerabend
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Interpreting Feyerabend

Critical Essays

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  2. English
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eBook - PDF

Interpreting Feyerabend

Critical Essays

About this book

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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781108471992
eBook ISBN
9781108624794
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy & Ethics in Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Introduction: Paul Feyerabend’s Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century
  10. Chapter 1 Feyerabend on Art and Science
  11. Chapter 2 The Coherence of Feyerabend’s Pluralist Realism
  12. Chapter 3 Feyerabend’s General Theory of Scientific Change
  13. Chapter 4 Feyerabend’s Theoretical Pluralism: An Investigation of the Epistemic Value of False Theories
  14. Chapter 5 Epistemological Anarchism Meets Epistemic Voluntarism: Feyerabend’s Against Method and van Fraassen’s The Empirical Stance
  15. Chapter 6 Feyerabend Never Was an Eliminative Materialist: Feyerabend’s Meta-Philosophy and the Mind–Body Problem
  16. Chapter 7 Feyerabend’s Re-evaluation of Scientific Practice: Quantum Mechanics, Realism and Niels Bohr
  17. Chapter 8 On Feyerabend, General Relativity, and “Unreasonable” Universes
  18. Chapter 9 Feyerabend, Science and Scientism
  19. Chapter 10 Against Expertise: A Lesson from Feyerabend’s Science in a Free Society?
  20. Chapter 11 A Way Forward for Citizen Science: Taking Advice from a Madman
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index

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