Beyond Reason Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend
Some philosophers think that Paul Feyerabend is a clown, a great many others think that he is one of the most exciting philosophers of science of this century. For me the truth does not lie somewhere in between, for I am decidedly of the second opinion, a
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BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editor ROBERT S. COHEN, Boston University
Editorial Advisory Board ADOLF GRONBAUM, University of Pittsburgh SYLVAN S. SCHWEBER, Brandeis University JOHN J. STACHEL, Boston University MARX W. WARTOFSKY, Baruch College of
the City University of New York
VOLUME 132
BEYOND REASON Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend Edited by GONZALO MUNEVAR The Evergreen State College, Washington, U.SA.
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Beyond reason : essays an the philosophy of Pau; Feyerabend I edited by Gonzalo Munevar. p. cm. -- (Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 132) "Most of the essays in this festschrift were originally published in German in Hans Peter Duerr's ed., Versuchungen Aufsătze zur Phi losophie Paul Feyerabends, Shurkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1980"--P. ISBN 978-94-010-5406-5 ISBN 978-94-011-3188-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-3188-9
1. Feyerabend, Paul K., 19241. Feyerabend, Paul K., 1924II. Munevar, Gonzalo. III. Versuchungen Aufsătze zur Philosophie Paul Feyerabends. IV. Ser ies. B3240.F484B49 1991 193--dc20 91-17470
ISBN 978-94-010-5406-5
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"What I really am, a dishwasher",
Table of Contents
GONZALO MONEVAR / Introduction ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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1. PAULM. CHURCHLAND / A Deeper Unity: Some Feyerabendian Themes in Neurocomputational Form 2. MARX W. WARTOFSKY / How to Be a Good Realist 3. C.A. HOOKER / Between Formalism and Anarchism: A Reasonable Middle Way 4. ALASTAIR HANNAY / Free of Prejudice and Wholly Critical 5. IAN HACKING / Speculation, Calculation and the Creation of Phenomena 6. JOHN KEKES / Reason and Practice 7. GONZALO MONEVAR / Science in Feyerabend's Free Society 8. MARGHERITA VON BRENTANO / Letter to an AntiLiberal Liberal 9. WERNER DIEDERICH / Obituary on the "Anarchist" Paul Feyerabend 10. NORETTA KOERTGE / Ideology, Science and a Free Society 11. ALAN MUSGRAVB / The Myth of Astronomical Instrumentalism 12. GUNNAR ANDERSSON / Feyerabend on Falsifications, Galileo, and Lady Reason Vll
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13. FREDERICK SUPPE / The Observational Origins of Feyerabend's Anarchistic Epistemology 14. ANTHONY N. PEROVICH, Jr. / Incommensurability, its Varieties and its Ontological Consequences 15. JOHN WORRALL / Feyerabend and the Facts 16. JEROME R. RAYETZ / Ideological Commitments in the Philosophy of Science 17. JOSEPH AGASSI / As You Like It 18. VINE DELORIA / Perceptions and Maturity: Reflections on Feyerabend's Point of V
