Feyerabend's Philosophy /
Oberheim, Eric
Feyerabend's Philosophy / Eric Oberheim. - 1 online resource (321 p.) - Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie , 73 0344-8142 ; .
Dissertation
i-vi -- Preface -- Contents -- Analytic Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Feyerabend's Philosophical Development -- Chapter 1. Facing Feyerabend. Some preliminary problems -- Chapter 2. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Meaning and Ontology -- Chapter 3. Karl Popper. Using and abusing critical rationalism -- Chapter 4. Felix Ehrenhaft. The impotence of experiment -- Part II. Feyerabend’s Assault on Conceptual Conservativism -- Chapter 5. Incommensurability as attack on conceptual conservativism -- Chapter 6. Incommensurability and scientific realism -- Part III. Feyerabend’s Philosophical Pluralism -- Chapter 7. Feyerabend's methods -- Chapter 8. The role of alternatives in promoting progress -- Chapter 9. Feyerabend’s philosophical pluralism (1950s-1990s) -- Literature -- Index
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Paul Feyerabend ist einer der einflussreichsten Wissenschaftsphilosophen – vor allem bekannt durch seine pointierten Provokationen. Es sind mehr Anekdoten über Feyerabend im Umlauf als ernsthafte Auseinandersetzungen. Eric Oberheim erfüllte ein dringendes Forschungsdesiderat, Feyerabends Ideen und ihre Entwicklung systematisch zu untersuchen. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf Feyerabends Konzeption miteinander nicht vereinbarer Begriffe und auf einem pluralistischen Zugang zu Erkenntnistheorie und Philosophie. Paul Feyerabend ranks among the most exciting and influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. This reconstruction of his developing ideas combines historical and systematic considerations.Part I examines the three main influences on Feyerabend’s philosophical development: Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, Popper critical rationalism and Ehrenhaft’s experimental effects.Part II focuses on Feyerabend’s development and use of the notion of incommensurability at the heart of his philosophical critiques, and investigates his relation to realism. Feyerabend initially developed the notion of incommensurability from ideas he found in Duhem. He used the notion of incommensurability to attack many different forms of conceptual conservativism in philosophy and the natural sciences. He argued against many views on the grounds that that they would constrain the freedom necessary to develop alternative points of view, and thereby hinder scientific advance. Contrary to widespread opinion, he was never a scientific realist.Part III reconstructs Feyerabend’s pluralistic conception of knowledge in the context of his pluralistic philosophical method. Feyerabend was a philosophical pluralist, who practiced pluralism in pursuit of progress.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110189070 9783110891768
10.1515/9783110891768 doi
Methodology--History--20th century.
Philosophy, Austrian--20th century.
Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
Antike Philosophie.
Feyerabend, Paul.
Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
Ancient philosophy. Ehrenhaft, Felix. Feyerabend, Paul. Popper, Karl. Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
B3240.F484 / O24 2006eb
Feyerabend's Philosophy / Eric Oberheim. - 1 online resource (321 p.) - Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie , 73 0344-8142 ; .
Dissertation
i-vi -- Preface -- Contents -- Analytic Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Feyerabend's Philosophical Development -- Chapter 1. Facing Feyerabend. Some preliminary problems -- Chapter 2. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Meaning and Ontology -- Chapter 3. Karl Popper. Using and abusing critical rationalism -- Chapter 4. Felix Ehrenhaft. The impotence of experiment -- Part II. Feyerabend’s Assault on Conceptual Conservativism -- Chapter 5. Incommensurability as attack on conceptual conservativism -- Chapter 6. Incommensurability and scientific realism -- Part III. Feyerabend’s Philosophical Pluralism -- Chapter 7. Feyerabend's methods -- Chapter 8. The role of alternatives in promoting progress -- Chapter 9. Feyerabend’s philosophical pluralism (1950s-1990s) -- Literature -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Paul Feyerabend ist einer der einflussreichsten Wissenschaftsphilosophen – vor allem bekannt durch seine pointierten Provokationen. Es sind mehr Anekdoten über Feyerabend im Umlauf als ernsthafte Auseinandersetzungen. Eric Oberheim erfüllte ein dringendes Forschungsdesiderat, Feyerabends Ideen und ihre Entwicklung systematisch zu untersuchen. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf Feyerabends Konzeption miteinander nicht vereinbarer Begriffe und auf einem pluralistischen Zugang zu Erkenntnistheorie und Philosophie. Paul Feyerabend ranks among the most exciting and influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. This reconstruction of his developing ideas combines historical and systematic considerations.Part I examines the three main influences on Feyerabend’s philosophical development: Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, Popper critical rationalism and Ehrenhaft’s experimental effects.Part II focuses on Feyerabend’s development and use of the notion of incommensurability at the heart of his philosophical critiques, and investigates his relation to realism. Feyerabend initially developed the notion of incommensurability from ideas he found in Duhem. He used the notion of incommensurability to attack many different forms of conceptual conservativism in philosophy and the natural sciences. He argued against many views on the grounds that that they would constrain the freedom necessary to develop alternative points of view, and thereby hinder scientific advance. Contrary to widespread opinion, he was never a scientific realist.Part III reconstructs Feyerabend’s pluralistic conception of knowledge in the context of his pluralistic philosophical method. Feyerabend was a philosophical pluralist, who practiced pluralism in pursuit of progress.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783110189070 9783110891768
10.1515/9783110891768 doi
Methodology--History--20th century.
Philosophy, Austrian--20th century.
Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
Antike Philosophie.
Feyerabend, Paul.
Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern.
Ancient philosophy. Ehrenhaft, Felix. Feyerabend, Paul. Popper, Karl. Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
B3240.F484 / O24 2006eb