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Feyerabend and Scientific Values: Tightrope-Walking Rationality

Feyerabend and Scientific Values: Tightrope-Walking Rationality

Farrell, R. P.

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Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Book 235

PhilosophyHistory & Philosophy of ScienceLogic

ISBN10: 9048163099
ISBN13: 9789048163090
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 9 2010
Pages: 259
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Every philosopher of science, and every student of the philosophy of science, has heard of Paul Feyerabend: the iconoclast who supposedly asserted that science is not rational, nor objective, but is characterised by anarchism, relativism, subjectivism and power. In this book it is argued that this picture of Feyerabend is false. Though Feyerabend was an iconoclast, his destructive philosophy was also creative. Feyerabend was deeply critical of a particular theory of scientific rationality, herein labelled 'Rationalism' - characterised as the algorithmic application of universal, necessary, atemporal rules - but he did not completely reject the idea of scientific rationality. It is argued that Feyerabend implicitly supported an alternative theory of rationality, herein labelled tightrope-walking rationality, characterised as the context-sensitive balancing of inherently irreconcilable values.

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