Killing Time Feyerabend Paul K.
Killing Time Feyerabend Paul K. Killing Time is the story of Paul Feyerabend's life. But he emphatically was not a builder of theories or a writer of rules. Finished only weeks before his death in…
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Killing Time Feyerabend Paul K.
Killing Time is the story of Paul Feyerabend's life. But he emphatically was not a builder of theories or a writer of rules. Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, it is the self-portrait of one of this century's most original and influential intellectuals.Trained in physics and astronomy, Feyerabend was best known as a philosopher of science.
Feyerabend gave voice to a radically democratic "epistemological anarchism: " he argued forcefully that there is not one way to knowledge, but many principled paths; not one truth or one rationality but different, competing pictures of the workings of the world. Rather, his fame was in powerful, plain-spoken critiques of "big" science and "big" philosophy. "Anything goes," he said about the ways of science in his most famous book, Against Method.
And he meant it.Here, for the first time, Feyerabend traces the