Feyerabend and Scientific Values
Subtitle: Tightrope-Walking Rationality (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781402013508
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Rationalism; Logic; Science/Mathematics; Science; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects; 1924-; Feyerabend, Paul K.,; Philosophy
First sentence: Paul Feyerabend begins his notorious book Against Method (1975) in the following manner: The following essay is written in the conviction that anarchism, while perhaps not the most attractive political philosophy, is certainly excellent medicine for epistemology, and for the philosophy of science.