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The Rise of Western Rationalism: Paul Feyerabend's Story (2016)

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I summarize certain aspects of Paul Feyerabend's account of the development of Western rationalism, show the ways in which that account is supposed to run up against an alternative, that of Karl Popper, and then try to give a preliminary comparison of the two. My interest is primarily in whether what Feyerabend called his ‘story’ constitutes a possible history of our epistemic concepts and their trajectory. I express some grave reservations about that story, and about Feyerabend's framework, finding Popper's views less problematic here. However, I also suggest that one important aspect of Feyerabend's material, his treatment of religious belief, can be given an interpretation which makes it tenable, and perhaps preferable to a Popperian approach.

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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
Shaw, Jamie
Oberheim, Eric
Clarke, Steven William
Matteo Collodel
Tambolo, Luca
Daniel Kuby
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Rationalism
Methodology of science; scientific method
History of philosophy of science
Controversies and disputes
Induction
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Brazil
Vienna (Austria)
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