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Riffing on Feyerabend: Direct Observation, Paraconsistentist Logic, and a Research Immanent Account of the Rationaliy of Science

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  • George Couvalis
George Couvalis
Independent Researcher

Opublikowane 15.02.2024 — zaktualizowane 28.05.2024

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  • Feyerabend,
  • history and philosophy of science,
  • inconsistency,
  • paraconsistency,
  • philosophy of science,
  • scientific rationality,
  • Shapere
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Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy

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Couvalis, George. “Riffing on Feyerabend: Direct Observation, Paraconsistentist Logic, and a Research Immanent Account of the Rationaliy of Science”. 2024. Filozoficzne Aspekty Genezy , vol. 20, no. 2, May 2024, pp. 165-83, https://doi.org/10.53763/fag.2023.20.2.225.

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Feyerabend’s work, particularly his early papers contain important insights into the nature of science and scientific progress. I discuss his insights into the limits of empiricist foundationalism and positivism. I explain how the work of a number of philosophers has borne out Feyerabend’s claims in startling and interesting ways. Nevertheless, I criticise Feyerabend’s move from his attack on universal method to relativism. I point out that Feyerabend never confronted a well-developed research immanent view of the rationality of scientific change, which shows the limitations of the arguments in Against Method.

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