{"product_id":"feyerabend-philsosphy-science-and-society-9780745616766","title":"Feyerabend  Philsosphy Science and Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eaeo The first comprehensive, critical study of one of the foremost twentieth--century philosophers of science -- Paul Feyerabend.  aeo The book will be an excellent introduction to Feyerabenda s work for students in philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a brave, direct, competent, insightful and sympathetic exposition of the total output of one of the best-known, most admired, least comprehended philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. It is a fair critical assessment of Feyerabend's work as intriguing and inspired but as falling short of his goal.' \u003ci\u003eJoseph Agassi, York University, Ontario, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Preston provides a sympathetic but critical account of Feyerabend's work. The scope is comprehensive and the treatment is fair-minded, sensible and thoroughly professional. The content is certainly better than anything I have encountered on Feyerabend. It can be read by those who have not read Feyerabend and by those whose acquaintance with philosophy of science is limited or non-existent.' \u003ci\u003eWilliam Newton-Smith, Balliol College, Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'John Preston has done us a signal service in charting the chages in Feyerabend's thought and in sympathetically explaining why he thought what he did.' \u003ci\u003eMind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on References.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Feyerabend's Life and Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Philosophy and the Aim of Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Meaning: The Attack on Positivism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Theories of Observation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Scientific Realism and Instrumentalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Theoretical Monism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Incommensurability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Theoretical Pluralism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Materialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Science without Method.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Relativism, Rationalism and a Free Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404344959319,"sku":"9780745616766","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745616766.jpg?v=1730486167","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/feyerabend-philsosphy-science-and-society-9780745616766","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}