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Beyond Reason

Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Gonzalo Munévar

    1. The Evergreen State College, Washington, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 132)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. A Deeper Unity: Some Feyerabendian Themes in Neurocomputational Form

    • Paul M. Churchland
    Pages 1-23

  3. How to Be a Good Realist

    • Marx W. Wartofsky
    Pages 25-40

  4. Between Formalism and Anarchism: A Reasonable Middle Way

    • C. A. Hooker
    Pages 41-107

  5. Free of Prejudice and Wholly Critical?

    • Alastair Hannay
    Pages 109-129

  6. Speculation, Calculation and the Creation of Phenomena

    • Ian Hacking
    Pages 131-157

  7. Reason and Practice

    • John Kekes
    Pages 159-178

  8. Science in Feyerabend’s Free Society

    • Gonzalo Munévar
    Pages 179-198

  9. Letter to an Anti-Liberal Liberal

    • Margherita Von Brentano
    Pages 199-212

  10. Obituary on the “Anarchist” Paul Feyerabend

    • Werner Diederich
    Pages 213-224

  11. Ideology, Science and a Free Society

    • Noretta Koertge
    Pages 225-241

  12. The Myth of Astronomical Instrumentalism

    • Alan Musgrave
    Pages 243-280

  13. Feyerabend on Falsifications, Galileo, and Lady Reason

    • Gunnar Andersson
    Pages 281-295

  14. The Observational Origins of Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Epistemology

    • Frederick Suppe
    Pages 297-311

  15. Incommensurability, Its Varieties and Its Ontological Consequences

    • Anthony N. Perovich Jr.
    Pages 313-328

  16. Feyerabend and the Facts

    • John Worrall
    Pages 329-353

  17. Ideological Commitments in the Philosophy of Science

    • Jerome R. Ravetz
    Pages 355-377

  18. As You Like It

    • Joseph Agassi
    Pages 379-387

  19. Perceptions and Maturity: Reflections on Feyerabend’s Point of View

    • Vine Deloria
    Pages 389-401

  20. Paul Feyerabend — a Green Hero?

    • Arne Naess
    Pages 403-416
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About this book

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. Hooker and some of the other contributors), Paul Churchland argues otherwise.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Evergreen State College, Washington, USA

    Gonzalo Munévar

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Beyond Reason

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on the Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend

  • Editors: Gonzalo Munévar

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3188-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1272-7Published: 30 September 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5406-5Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3188-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 538

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general, Philosophy of Education, Logic

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