Interpreting Feyerabend
Critical Essays
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- Editors:
- Karim Bschir, Universität St Gallen, Switzerland
- Jamie Shaw, University of Western Ontario
- Date Published: March 2021
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108471992
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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.
Read more- Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the topics Feyerabend engaged with throughout his career, demonstrating the breadth of his thought and corpus
- Introduces readers to the depths and nuances of Feyerabend's philosophy without presupposing a great deal of background knowledge
- Considers the ways in which Feyerabend's thought can contribute to contemporary debates in science and public policy
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'All of them go beyond where Feyerabend left off, which is appropriate for a book with this subtitle. [This] is an excellent collection that has already begun to reshape our understanding of Feyerabend's contributions to philosophy, and it will continue to do so for years to come.' Michael T. Stuart, Metascience
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- Date Published: March 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108471992
- length: 290 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 159 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction. Paul Feyerabend's Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century Jamie Shaw and Karim Bschir
1. Feyerabend on Art and Science Chiara Ambrosio
2. The Coherence of Feyerabend's Pluralist Realism Hasok Chang
3. Feyerabend's General Theory of Scientific Change Hakob Barseghyan
4. Feyerabend's Theoretical Pluralism: An Investigation of the Epistemic Value of False Theories K. Brad Wray
5. Epistemological Anarchism Meets Epistemic Voluntarism: Feyerabend's Against Method and van Fraassen's The Empirical Stance Martin Kusch
6. Feyerabend Never was an Eliminative Materialist: Feyerabend's Meta-Philosophy and the Mind-Body Problem Jamie Shaw
7. Feyerabend's Reevaluation of Scientific Practice: Quantum Mechanics, Realism and Niels Bohr Daniel Kuby
8. On Feyerabend, General Relativity, and 'Unreasonable' Universes J. B. Manchak
9. Feyerabend, Science, and Scientism Ian James Kidd
10. Matthew Brown – Against Expertise: A Lesson from Feyerabend's Science in a Free Society? Matthew Brown
11. A Way Forward for Citizen Science: Taking Advice from a Madman Sarah M. Roe.
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