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9780860918967

Farewell to Reason

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  • ISBN13:

    9780860918967

  • ISBN10:

    0860918963

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1988-01-17
  • Publisher: Verso
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Summary

Paul Feyerabend offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of 'progress' and 'development.'

Author Biography

Paul Feyerabend was Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley, and Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich. He died in 1994. His books include Philosophical Papers, Farewell to Reason, and Against Method.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition v
Introduction 1(18)
Notes on Relativism
19(71)
Reason, Xenophanes and the Homeric Gods
90(13)
Knowledge and the Role of Theories
103(25)
Creativity
128(15)
Progress in Philosophy, the Sciences and the Arts
143(19)
Trivializing Knowledge: Comments on Popper's Excursions into Philosophy
162(30)
Mach's Theory of Research and its Relation to Einstein
192(27)
Some Observations on Aristotle's Theory of Mathematics and of the Continuum
219(28)
Galileo and the Tyranny of Truth
247(18)
Putnam on Incommensurability
265(8)
Cultural Pluralism or Brave New Monotony?
273(7)
Farewell to Reason
280(40)
Index 320

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