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Late Feyerabend on Materialism, Mysticism, and Religion (2016)

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Feyerabend's interests in religion and mysticism grew through his career. In his later writings, Feyerabend's numerous critiques of scientific materialism are often accompanied by purported advantages of religious orientations and temperaments. These recommendations do not simply follow from his tolerant theoretical pluralism; they are more positive attempts to articulate distinctive aspects of human life satisfied by religion, but not by scientific materialism. Elevating the human need for mystery, reverence, and love, he contrasts these goods with the deliverances of monistic conceptions of science and reason. I bring attention to some of the common themes in these remarks to argue that they were integral with other parts of his philosophical project and that they could serve as helpful rejoinders to contemporary exhortations to science-based secularism from philosophers of science.

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Article Matthew J. Brown; Ian James Kidd (2016) Introduction: Reappraising Paul Feyerabend. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 1-8). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Peter B. Thompson
Goldman, Loren
Rumore, Paola
Leask, Ian
Salatowsky, Sascha
Donohue, Christopher R.
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Materialism
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Philosophy of science
Philosophy
Matter theory
Physics
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18th century
19th century
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