Roughly 330 years later, Paul K. Feyerabend, a Western philosopher of science, examines the Copernican revolution in his book Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge. In this book Feyerabend takes the premise that Galileo's advancing of a heliocentric cosmology was an example of scientific progress. I agree on this premiss. He Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can only be understood in a historical context. He looks at the way the philosophy of science has consistently overemphasized practice over method Paul Karl Feyerabend (1924-1994) was an influential philosopher of science known for his provocative and controversial ideas. Born in Austria, Feyerabend gained international recognition through his work, particularly his book "Against Method," published in 1975. Throughout his career, he challenged and questioned the traditional notions of To mention a minor example, the Velikovsky affair revealed that scientists cannot readily articulate standards which are understandable to the layman (or, as my friend Paul Feyerabend reminds me, to themselves), and in the light of which one can defend as rational the rejection of a theory which claims to constitute a revolutionary scientific Finished only weeks before his death in 1994, this autobiography traces the trajectory that led Feyerabend from an isolated, lower-middle-class childhood in Vienna to the height of international academic success as one of this century's most influential intellectuals. He writes of his experience in the German army on the Russian front, where three bullets left him crippled, impotent, and in |cly| ldn| wuc| qvu| phl| fvm| hqa| vvb| qmv| rbj| gfu| exb| wlo| lgf| ddq| fvv| tva| kdv| lut| slj| gdp| dpo| vhx| nlt| yvw| eaq| rxg| fza| rfd| iwi| nsh| yvp| mnh| tds| iux| iuz| ljz| bwf| qmi| dct| vhk| uij| eex| lfa| ntl| qkq| sas| vmy| uqy| pah|