Book contents
- Interpreting Feyerabend
- Interpreting Feyerabend
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Feyerabend on Art and Science
- Chapter 2 The Coherence of Feyerabend’s Pluralist Realism
- Chapter 3 Feyerabend’s General Theory of Scientific Change
- Chapter 4 Feyerabend’s Theoretical Pluralism
- Chapter 5 Epistemological Anarchism Meets Epistemic Voluntarism
- Chapter 6 Feyerabend Never Was an Eliminative Materialist
- Chapter 7 Feyerabend’s Re-evaluation of Scientific Practice
- Chapter 8 On Feyerabend, General Relativity, and “Unreasonable” Universes
- Chapter 9 Feyerabend, Science and Scientism
- Chapter 10 Against Expertise
- Chapter 11 A Way Forward for Citizen Science
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 9 - Feyerabend, Science and Scientism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2021
- Interpreting Feyerabend
- Interpreting Feyerabend
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Feyerabend on Art and Science
- Chapter 2 The Coherence of Feyerabend’s Pluralist Realism
- Chapter 3 Feyerabend’s General Theory of Scientific Change
- Chapter 4 Feyerabend’s Theoretical Pluralism
- Chapter 5 Epistemological Anarchism Meets Epistemic Voluntarism
- Chapter 6 Feyerabend Never Was an Eliminative Materialist
- Chapter 7 Feyerabend’s Re-evaluation of Scientific Practice
- Chapter 8 On Feyerabend, General Relativity, and “Unreasonable” Universes
- Chapter 9 Feyerabend, Science and Scientism
- Chapter 10 Against Expertise
- Chapter 11 A Way Forward for Citizen Science
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994) acquired a variety of epithets during the latter stage of his career. The most persistent is perhaps Nature’s description of him as ‘the worst enemy of science’, later adopted as the title of an important collection of essays in his honour. The label encapsulates his bad reputation, at least within philosophy of science, which can be divided roughly into two aspects.
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- Interpreting FeyerabendCritical Essays, pp. 172 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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