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1277765
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Books
Title
Tegen de methode
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Year
2008
Print Run
Second edition
Number of pages
383
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240.0 x 165.0 cm
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978-90-477-0031-9
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New edition, expanded and completely revised by the author -------------------------------------------------- ---- "If we think of Popper's philosophy as an apple, and Kuhn's as an orange, Feyerabend's pluralism is a whole fruit basket." André Klukhuhn Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994) became famous for his strong critique of "great" science and "great" philosophy. He showed that there is not one way to the truth, but many ways; not one truth or one rationality, but different, competing ways of looking at the world. “Anything goes,” he said in his main work Against Method, the first edition of which came out in 1975. With this book, Feyerabend had a major influence on modern philosophy of science – since then attention has shifted from methodology to practice on many academic fronts. The only credible explanations of scientific success are historical explanations, Feyerabend said, and in epistemology rationalism must give way to anarchism. For this third and final edition of Against Method, which appeared in 1993, Feyerabend wrote a new foreword and a substantial introduction. Furthermore, he has completely revised the text and added many passages discussing recent debates about science. For example, he insists that we must continue to listen to the voice of the non-expert. Many environmental hazards were first identified by people who encountered them in the field, not scientists. Feyerabend's critique of scientific claims is as sharp and appropriate as it has always been.

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