| 期刊全称 | Beyond Reason | | 期刊简称 | Essays on the Philos | | 影响因子2023 | Gonzalo Munévar | | 视频video | | | 学科分类 | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | 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, an opinion that is becoming general around the world as this century comes to an end and history begins to cast its appraising eye upon the intellectual harvest of our era. A good example of this opinion may be found in the admiration for Feyerabend‘s philosophy of science expressed by Grover Maxwell in his contribution to this volume. Maxwell, recalling his own intellectual transformation, says also that it was Feyerabend who "confirmed my then incipient suspicions that most of the foundations of currently fashionable philosophy and even a great deal of the methodology to which many scientists pay enthusiastic lip service are based on simple mistake- assumptions whose absurdity becomes obvious once attention is directed at them". And lest the reader thinks, as many still do, that however sharp Feyerabend‘s attacks upon the philosophical establishment may have been, he does not offer a positive philosophy (a complain made by C.A. Ho | | Pindex | Book 1991 |
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