Paul K. Feyerabend’s Method Against Method: a Plurality of Theories?

• Authors: Stepukonis Aivaras
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article examines and criticizes Paul Karl Feyerabend’s seminal work entitled, “How to Be a Good Empiricist – A Plea for Tolerance in Matters Epistemological” which persuasively argued for pluralistic view of scientific knowledge and theoretical truth. Throughout the article, a number of polemical points, analytic elaborations, and broader philosophical concerns are raised regarding the notions of consistency condition, meaning invariance, theoretical alternatives, and the very principle of theoretical pluralism. The article concludes that Feyerabend’s call for a plurality of theories as the surest path to the progress of science is in need of numerous conceptual qualifications, provoking the reader into critical thinking about the deeper underpinnings of science while providing very few ready-made answers to the problems enunciated.

Keywords

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Paul K. Feyerabend; philosophy of science; metaphysics; epistemology; empiricism; theoretical pluralism; consistency condition; meaning invariance

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 271-290

Contributors

author

Stepukonis Aivaras

• Lithuanian Institute for Cultural Studies, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, Saltoniskiu g. 58, LT-08105 Vilnius, Lithuania.